Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

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AFRIFORUM CONTROL ROOM FOR GAUTENG, LIMPOPO AND MPUMALANGA HANDLES MORE THAN 960 INCIDENTS IN APRIL

ByAfriForum 04/05/202103/09/2021

AfriForum’s control room for Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga handled more than 960 incidents in April this year while supporting the organisation’s neighbourhood watches in these provinces. The aim of the control room is to support the AfriForum neighbourhood watches by ensuring that help and the necessary resources are made available quicker.

AfriForum neighbourhood watches in these provinces held 760 patrols in total in April (194 in Gauteng, 120 in Mpumalanga and 446 in Limpopo), in which 775 people participated.

“Incidents that stood out in the region comprise of unrests. The number of unrests in the three provinces were higher than usual. Nine incidences of unrest were recorded in January, 30 in February, 104 in March and 83 in April,” says Llewellyn Hemmens, AfriForum’s Safety Coordinator for Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

“The control room offers a myriad of benefits to AfriForum neighbourhood watches. It identifies crime tendencies, as well as the types of crime that are on the increase in which areas. Regarding tendencies that increased, we could clearly see that crime increased significantly over the Easter weekend. This resulted in more patrols than usual,” Hemmens says.

AfriForum once again urges the Gauteng public to remove valuable items from their vehicles, and to ensure that vehicles are parked in safe areas. Vehicle theft increased in the area in March and April.

Get involved in your local AfriForum neighbourhood watch and make an actual difference in your community: SMS the name of your town to 45353 (R1).