The civil rights organisation Cape Forum has today announced that, following the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Basic Education’s adoption of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (also known as the Bela Bill), it will now join forces with other organisations considering further action against the government. The organisation demands, among other things, that communities themselves…
The coloured community lost one of its most important historians today with the passing of Prof. Henry “Jatti” Bredekamp. Cape Forum honours him as someone who, through his work at the University of the Western Cape and Iziko museums, ensured that the history of the country’s indigenous people gained prominence. He was especially an expert…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum notes with concern the fact that the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape has already had to do without the necessary radio communication equipment for more than 13 years. The organisation is demanding answers from the state’s information technology agency (SITA) about the lack of infrastructure…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum welcomes the Department of Employment and Labour’s announcement that the new amendments to the Employment Equality Act and the new race regulations will no longer be implemented on 1 September. This follows after Cape Forum, together with 30 other organisations, took a stand against the government’s new neo-apartheid racial…
The Cape Forum and Solidarity, together with community leaders today petitioned Parliament in Cape Town about the new race law and the recently published race regulations. Among other things, these groups request a special parliamentary debate on the matter and for Parliament to intervene and stop the law. According to the petition, the new law…
Nationally, approximately one in four coloured employees will have to be replaced in order to meet the Minister of Labour’s sectoral targets which are indicated in the proposed employment regulations in terms of the new race law. This is one of the shocking facts from a report that Solidarity and the Cape Forum announced today…
Cape Forum submitted an application to the Constitutional Court on Friday 19 May, which aims to ensure that the residents of the Western Cape get more say in the management of the police service in the province. This must be done by way of a provincial referendum. As a civil rights organisation, Cape Forum believes…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum on 10 March brought a formal application in terms of The Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) against Stellenbosch University (SU). The application is about alleged incidents where linguistic diversity was prohibited in formal and informal situations at this university. The PAIA application follows recent complaints as well…
The Cape Forum welcomes the nine life sentences with which the Cape Town High Court punished the murderer of Tazné van Wyk today. However, the punishment does not compensate for the fact that the killer was on parole at the time of his monstrous attack on the eight-year-old Tazné. The state must accept responsibility for…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum learned on 1 February that the ANC, specifically the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), had once again postponed the granting of fishing rights until October. When these rights are granted, they will be valid for 15 years. This announcement by the minister, Barbara Creecy, to postpone…
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