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 warns the DWS about water leakages

By 07/09/202003/11/2020

AfriForum today in a letter warned Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Water and Sanitation, about the large-scale problem which water leakages in the country can bring about. The organisation also requested the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to appoint a task team that can focus on repairing water leakages across the country.

The organisation wrote this letter seeing as a lot of dam levels are low – like the Vaal Dam which is only 37,5% full and supplies water to a large part of Gauteng – and the country can in particular not afford to lose water through leakages.

AfriForum therefore created a platform on the organisation’s website where community members can report water leakages which will then in turn be communicated to the Department so that they can be held responsible to repair the leakages. Approximately 40% of municipalities’ drinking water is being lost daily due to water leakages.

“The Vaal Dam is singled out seeing as the dam supplies water to a large part of the country’s population, but there are also quite a number of other municipalities that are close to Day Zero,” says Lambert de Klerk, AfriForum’s Manager of Environmental Affairs.

According to De Klerk, the Department faces big challenges that need to be rectified, while water security in the country is mostly threatened as a result of the necessary maintenance not being performed, as well as due to corruption within the Department.

Visit AfriForum’s website to report water leakages in your town.