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 WELCOMES DWS’S DECISION TO RESUME PUBLISHING OF BLUE AND GREEN DROP REPORT

ByAfriForum 30/06/202103/09/2021

AfriForum welcomes the Department of Water and Sanitation’s announcement on 29 June during a webinar that it would be resuming the publication of its Blue and Green Drop report for municipalities to ascertain the quality of water and water infrastructure.

AfriForum has been publishing its own blue and green drop report since 2013 because the DWS ceased to publish its own reports. The civil rights organisation requested the DWS each year to publish the official report once again.

“The most important question that arises is whether municipalities who have been polluting water resources openly would start taking any responsibility. The Department will have to start showing its teeth and biting where they can by prosecuting offending municipalities criminally,” says Lambert de Klerk, AfriForum’s Manager for Environmental Affairs.

AfriForum’s national blue and green drop project focuses on the quality of the drinking water and sewage of towns and cities. The project does not necessarily focus on the condition of sewage plants, but rather on the quality of water that is released as end-product in the form of either drinking water (blue drop) or treated sewage (green water).

AfriForum is currently involved in the annual testing of blue and green drop water. The results will be made available soon.