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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Driver who is suspected of killing cyclist to be prosecuted after Private Prosecution Unit intervenes

ByAfriForum 10/03/202210/03/2022

The accused in the death of the cyclist Nino Oppel has been summoned by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to appear in the Krugersdorp Regional Court on 13 April 2022. This follows after AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, who are currently assisting the Oppel-family, made comprehensive representations to the Director of Public Prosecutions in Gauteng (DPP) after the NPA initially indicated that they would not prosecute. Oppel was participating in the popular Berge en Dale cycling race in Muldersdrift, Gauteng when the accused allegedly hit him with his vehicle and sped away.

The DPP, in reaction to the Private Prosecution Unit’s representations, already in August 2020 indicated that there is a prima facie case against the accused and that he should be prosecuted. Nevertheless, the chief prosecutor in the West Rand only indicated this week that the NPA would indeed institute prosecution. AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit therefore in February of this year wrote another letter to the DPP requesting that a prosecutor from his office be appointed to prosecute the accused after it appeared that there were unnecessary delays with the prosecution process. The NPA indicated that they have arranged for another investigating officer to further investigate the matter.

“We welcome the fact that the accused has finally been summoned to appear in court and we will also be in court on 13 April to support the Oppel-family. It is, however, shocking that we had to put so much pressure on the NPA to force them to simply do their duty and prosecute the accused without fear, favour or prejudice,” says Andrew Leask, Chief Investigator at AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit.