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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Trial of armed forces officer for ‘spreading’ HIV postponed again; legal representative failed to show up

ByAfriForum 06/10/202106/10/2021

The trial of the accused on a charge of attempted murder after he allegedly infected the victim with HIV while knowing he was infected and withheld and denied this fact, was today postponed in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to 20 October 2021 in order to determine a new trial date. The trial should have started today, but the legal representative of the accused failed to show up, because he is allegedly unwell. AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has a watching brief in this case on behalf of the victim and her family. Both the accused and the plaintiff were members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) when the alleged offence was committed.

“It seems that accused persons are increasingly employing delaying tactics in order to evade prosecution. Because justice delayed is justice denied, the courts need to take a firm stance against such tactics. This is not the first time that this case has been postponed because of the accused and the plaintiff was properly prepared by the prosecutor of the National Prosecuting Authority to testify today. The secondary trauma that she is suffering due to the continued delay of this case since 2016 is inexcusable. Nevertheless, she has remained very brave and we will continue to support her in order to rectify this injustice,” says Natasha Venter, Advisor at the Private Prosecution Unit.