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.

Media statements | Neighbourhood watches Media statements

AfriForum’s Roodepoort neighbourhood watch apprehends three suspects

Byafriforum 06/09/201903/11/2020

AfriForum’s Roodepoort neighbourhood watch apprehended three suspects in the area on 2 September 2019.

One of the suspects was apprehended during a patrol in the early hours of the morning. A member of the patrol caught the suspect red-handed while breaking into a house and arrested him. The suspect already has a case of armed robbery against him.

Later that day another two suspects were apprehended and turned over to the SAPS for further questioning. They were apprehended after the neighbourhood watch had investigated a report of a suspicious vehicle. One of the suspects is wanted for assault with the intent of serious injury. Drugs (tik and CAT) were also found in the suspects’ possession.

“These success don’t happen overnight – many man hours are required to implement and execute patrols effectively. When AfriForum’s Roodepoort neighbourhood watch do reap the benefits, as they did in this case, it confirms that they have a winning recipe to protect their community,” says Dewet Ungerer, AfriForum’s assistant coordinator for the West Rand.

SMS “Roodepoort” to 45341 (R1) to join your local neighbourhood watch.