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 establishes first regional safety network in the Southern Cape

ByAfriForum 25/01/202425/01/2024

AfriForum’s division for community safety set up its first regional safety network this week. This is the first of several networks of its kind that will be established nationwide this year. This regional safety network is based in the Southern Cape and will follow an integrated approach to safety and cooperation over an area of nearly 12 000 km² between AfriForum’s neighbourhood and farm watches in George, Oudtshoorn, Mossel Bay, and Knysna.

Closer cooperation between the branches in this network will help ensure that safety issues can be addressed over a wider area.

During the year, AfriForum will establish many more similar safety networks for the neighbourhood watches to function more effectively at a regional and national level. AfriForum currently has 172 neighbourhood and farm watch structures nationwide.

According to Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum’s chief spokesperson for community safety, the establishment of AfriForum’s regional safety networks has significant benefits for the communities they serve. “Through an effective safety network, criminal activities can be combated in a larger area. Likewise, information, such as that collected using security cameras along roads, can be shared more widely, and the movement of suspects between areas can be monitored much better. In addition, crime trends can also be identified and analysed more accurately to determine vulnerability and we will be able to perform better risk analyses,” says Broodryk.

In addition, the expansion of local radio networks will also be done as part of the establishment of regional safety networks to enable members who form part of these networks to communicate over longer distances. AfriForum will set up radio repeaters in certain areas to improve communication between regional safety networks and the AfriForum control rooms and branches nationwide.

“We can no longer simply sit back and watch by as our communities suffer under the wave of crime in this country. It is now time for more community members to get involved in neighbourhood watch structures,” Broodryk concludes.