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.

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Private prosecution of Thandi Modise to commence in March 2020

By 30/10/201903/11/2020

Thandi Modise, former Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces and current Speaker of the National Assembly, appeared in the Potchefstroom Regional Court today on charges of animal cruelty. The case was provisionally postponed to 24 to 27 March 2020, when Modise will plead to the charges and the trial will commence.

The final date for the hearing will be determined at the end of next week when Modise will have received her parliamentary programme.

“AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit welcomes the fact that a date has now been set for the trial, so that Modise can finally answer for this cruel case of animal abuse. Not even the Speaker of Parliament should be able to evade prosecution merely because she is a high-placed political figure. Our involvement underlines the respect that we have for the selfless work of the NSPCA,” says Elias Maangwale, Investigator at AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit.