Lobby group, AfriForum, has won a costs order against the extension of the government’s national state of disaster to curb the spread of COVID-19. In February 2022, AfriForum served court documents in which the Pretoria High Court was requested to declare the state of disaster as invalid and unlawful. Despite[…]
Lobby group AfriForum says there needs to be further dialogue with pharmaceutical retailer Dis-Chem on recruitment and racial discrimination due to its moratorium on hiring white people. It comes after a leaked document revealed that Dis-Chem’s CEO Ivan Saltzman called on managers to improve the company’s employment equity profile and[…]
LOCAL The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein will on Wednesday hear arguments by Afriforum in an attempt to legalise the display of the 1928 apartheid flag. AfrifForum is appealing against the Equality Court order that ruled that gratuitous display of the old national flag constitutes hate speech, unfair[…]
Lobby group Afriforum says it has written to the National Prosecuting Authority to ask them to act swiftly to ensure the arrest of the alleged mastermind in the killing of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa. The five men implicated in the killing of the soccer star appeared in the[…]
AfriForum’s deputy CEO Ernst Roets will learn his fate on Tuesday when the Equality Court sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg delivers judgment in an urgent application that he be found in contempt of court. The Nelson Mandela Foundation filed the application after Roets took to Twitter and[…]
JOHANNESBURG – The equality court will on Tuesday deliver judgment in the ‘Apartheid flag’ case. The Nelson Mandela Foundation made an application to the court against the display of the old flag. It says the display constitutes hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment based on race. WATCH: The NMF challenges displays of the apartheid[…]
Both condemnation and condolences have poured in this week after Johannes Mazibuko – an elderly “emerging farmer” – was reportedly attacked by a gang of six at his property in Frankfort, Free State. This latest farm murder case has sparked anger amongst political representatives in the province. Free State farm[…]
A team of pro-bono lawyers and volunteers is being put together by advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to defend Ambassador Zindzi Mandela in the hate speech complaint AfriForum laid over her #OurLand tweets. “I was asked by [EFF leader] Julius Malema to volunteer, which I agreed to,” he said by email in[…]
The Nelson Mandela Foundation and AfriForum will be back in the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday for the second day of its legal battle over the apartheid flag. The foundation has asked the court to declare the gratuitous display of the apartheid flag hate speech. It says the continuation of such acts constitute[…]
Lobby group AfriForum wants a decision by the SA Human Rights Commission that EFF leader Julius Malema’s statements were not hate speech, overturned. The organisation has filed papers in the Gauteng High Court arguing that there was an “error of law” and that the decision be set aside or taken[…]
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