Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s efforts to transform universities on racial lines were part of the “total onslaught” against Afrikaans, the AfriForum Youth said on Monday. “Extremist groups” like the EFF, student movements like Open Stellenbosch and Rhodes Must Fall and the failure to act against unruly students had led[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s undertaking on Thursday that the ANC would continue to defend minorities were empty words, AfriForum said. “The president’s undertaking to protect minorities remains empty words as long as he distorts history,” AfriForum said in a statement. AfriForum said it was responding to Zuma’s undertaking that the ANC[…]
The matric pass rate is less than 45 percent when considering how few of the pupils who enrolled in Grade One in 2003 wrote matric last year, Afriforum said on Monday. Of the 1,187,961 children in Grade One in 2003, only 689,625 (58 percent) made it to matric last year,[…]
Children should be taught in their mother tongue in order to improve understanding of difficult subjects, and subsequently improve their overall performance at school, according to the deputy CEO of Afriforum, Alana Bailey. Her statements come ahead of the anticipate release of the 2014 final matric results, with a substantial[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema has caused an uproar again. Malema made utterances at the party’s congress on Tuesday, urging members to illegally occupy land and mines country wide. Afriforum has now lashed out at Malemas comment’s and are taking legal action. CEO Kallie Kriel said on Thursday that he believes[…]
AfriForum on Wednesday laid criminal charges against EFF leader Julius Malema for his land grab comments at the party’s congress. “Malema must realise that his land grab policy will not be executed without opposition. AfriForum will fight any land grab policy with everything in our power,” spokesman Nantes Kelder said[…]
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