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…
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 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…
AfriForum launched its national campaign against misappropriation of taxpayers’ money in the health sector at a media conference in Centurion today. As part of this campaign, AfriForum will visit all nine provinces in the next week, during which criminal charges will be laid against nine heads of the Provincial Departments of Health in terms of…
AfriForum, as part of its national whistle-blower campaign, released a report today that exposes the total accumulated misappropriation of R16 billion by national departments during the 2015/2016 fiscal year. The national departments of Transport, Water and Sanitation (DWS) and Basic Education are the main perpetrators that are collectively responsible for the misappropriation of nearly R9…
AfriForum filed a complaint with the office of Adv. Thuli Madonsela, the Public Protector (PP) today after it came to light that the South African Police Service (SAPS) had spent R8,6 million from its budget on vehicles for Pres. Jacob Zuma’s five wives. “We hope that the PP will launch an in-depth investigation into this matter…
AfriForum today laid criminal charges against Dr. Sifiso Mtshali, Head of KwaZulu-Natal’s Department of Health as part of its “Genoeg is Genoeg” (enough is enough) campaign that was launched on Monday, 18 April. This comes after the organisation studied the Department’s annual report and found that Mtshali might be guilty of an offence in terms…
AfriForum today laid criminal charges against Mahlubandile Qwase, former Head of the Eastern Cape’s Department of Health as part of its “Genoeg is Genoeg” (enough is enough) campaign that was launched on Monday, 18 April. This comes after the organisation studied the Department’s annual report and found that Qwase might be guilty of an offence…
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