Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

AFRIFORUM’S CONTROL ROOM IN THE NORTHERN REGION ASSISTS NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCHES

ByAfriForum 22/01/202102/09/2021

During December 2020 AfriForum’s control room in the northern region assisted AfriForum’s neighbourhood watches in the northern region (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga). The purpose of the control room is to strengthen AfriForum’s neighbourhood watches and to ensure that assistance and the necessary resources can be called faster.

More than 260 cases were handled by this control room during December. Here are a few highlights:

The control room called the SAPD during a housebreaking in Pietersburg where the suspect was caught.
The control room also assisted and called the SAPD during an armed robbery in Warmbaths and the robbers were arrested.
After a vehicle accident in Centurion the control room assisted by calling the emergency services and the SAPD to the scene.
During a housebreaking in Krugersdorp the control room called the SAPD and one suspect was caught.
During a housebreaking in Standerton the control room called the SAPD again and one suspect was caught and arrested.
The control room also assisted in Ellisras by calling the emergency services for a male patient who was battling to breathe. The emergency services arrived just in time to help him.

“The successes achieved and assistance given by this control room once again emphasise the important role that this control room plays to strengthen and safeguard our communities,” says Hillel Coetzer, AfriForum’s Head of Safety for the northern region. “AfriForum’s neighbourhood watches are busy on a daily basis to safeguard their communities and it is for this very reason that AfriForum takes on projects like these to ensure that our members, who offer their time willingly, have better resources to function optimally and to combat crime within the framework of the law.”