Adv Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, announced today at a media conference that his unit served a mandamus application on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Minister of Justice to compel the NPA through the court to take a decision on the prosecution of the EFF leader, Julius Malema, for alleged…
AfriForum today laid criminal charges of money laundering and corruption against Fikile Mbalula, former Minister of Sport, at the Brooklyn police station. This follows after Sedgars Sport, a supplier of sport products, allegedly payed between R300 000 and R680 000 in 2017 for the Mbalula family’s trip to Dubai. AfriForum requested the Public Protector (PP) in 2017…
AfriForum today submitted criminal charges against both Andrina Matsemela, Mayor of the Mogalakwena Local Municipality, and Charles Malema, Chief Financial Officer of the Municipality, at the Mokopane Police Station in Potgietersrus. This follows after Matsemela allegedly spent approximately R1,5 million of municipal funds on her birthday party. The civil rights organisation is demanding that the police…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and Genl. Johan Booysen, former Head of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal who was presumably unlawfully suspended by Nomgcobo Jiba, today filed criminal charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against Shaun Abrahams, the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). This follows after the North Gauteng High Court found…
AfriForum condemns the decision by the presidency to press on with today’s exorbitant inauguration ceremony. In spite of the presidency’s reassurance that taxpayers have to cough up R100 million less than for the previous presidential inauguration, R120 million still is an enormous amount to spend on a one-off and unnecessary ceremony such as this. Nkosazana…
AfriForum today submitted numerous protest letters of residents across the country against the president’s request – that municipalities countrywide must transport 18 000 people to the presidential inauguration in Pretoria on 25 May 2019 – at the National Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in Pretoria. The civil rights organisation also sent a protest letter to the…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) informed Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, that the NPA has issued warrants of arrest for two of the four alleged murderers of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the former Rwandan Head of Intelligence. The NPA is also in the process of applying for the extradition of Ismael Gafaranga…
AfriForum welcomes the fact that Duduzane Zuma, son of former President Jacob Zuma, had to testify today in the case of culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driving against him. Zuma Jr was called as the defence’s first witness in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court. The case was postponed until tomorrow morning 08:30 after the stenograph broke…
AfriForum welcomed the court’s decision today not to acquit Duduzane Zuma (son of former President Jacob Zuma) on a charge of culpable homicide and a charge of reckless and negligent driving. The case has been postponed to 15 May 2019, when the defence team will start leading its witnesses. Zuma Jr’s defence team brought an application in…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) today informed AfriForum that they are going to prosecute Julius Malema, Leader of the EFF, and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, EFF Spokesperson, for the alleged assault of a colonel in the SAPS. This follows AfriForum’s announcement in July this year that they would approach the court with a mandamus application to force…
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