During a media conference held today, AfriForum launched a comprehensive report on why the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa will be unconstitutional. The report further explains why the impact study on which the NHI is based, is totally inadequate which means that the Bill should be set aside. “According to the…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
The civil rights watchdog AfriForum today launched a campaign encouraging state officials to report any corruption related charges at its anti-corruption unit. AfriForum also this week introduced a new website (www.stopcorruption.co.za) where corruption can be reported. “Corruption is a serious threat to our country’s future and subsequently has an effect on every citizen and frequently…
AfriForum today laid criminal charges against Pres. Jacob Zuma, Ajay Gupta, Tegeta and Eskom’s Board as well as against Mosebenzi Zwane, Minister of Mineral Resources, and Lynne Brown, Minister of Public Enterprises. This follows the release on Wednesday of the State of Capture report by the former Public Protector, Adv. Thuli Madonsela. “The State of…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum welcomes the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to withdraw the charges against Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance. Monique Taute, Head of AfriForum’s Anti-corruption Unit, says it is however regrettable that it had to take the pressure and intervention of the civil society to have come to this point….
AfriForum launched its Anti-corruption Unit in cooperation with Paul O’Sullivan, Forensic Investigator and certified Fraud Examiner, at a media conference in Centurion today. The civil rights organisation has long recognised the fact that systemic corruption could bring any country to its knees and therefore decided to take this opportunity to expose how the criminal justice…
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