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’s Roodepoort neighbourhood watch arrests suspects

By 22/07/202003/11/2020

The AfriForum neighbourhood watch in Roodepoort on 20 July 2020 executed various arrests during which suspects were arrested for the possession of explosives and cable theft. Some of the suspects that were also apprehended are illegal immigrants. This follows after the neighbourhood watch executed a routine patrol in cooperation with the SAPS, CPF and other units. After a routine patrol was executed again on 21 July, four more suspects were arrested for cable theft.

Thanks to the good cooperative relationship between the respective role-players, they succeeded in following up the leads of the community and collectively devised workable plans to bring the suspects to book. The illegal immigrants will be detained until being deported to their country of origin later this month. An investigation will be launched into the activities of the copper thieves to determine the syndicate they are involved with. The explosives and copper that is 100 m in length and 5 cm in diameter, were returned to Prasa.

“Cooperation between different role-players is one of the principles of area protection. These arrests are good examples of the results that can be achieved when communities do not stand back,” says Llewellynn Hemmens, AfriForum’s Provincial Coordinator for the northern region.

Become involved with AfriForum’s Roodepoort neighbourhood watch today: SMS your name to 45340 (R1).