If the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (also known as the BELA Bill) is accepted in its current form, it will amount to a shameful stripping of parents’ say in their children’s school education in particular regarding schools’ language and admission policies. This is the opinion of the civil rights organisation Cape Forum, which submitted…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum and several other local community leaders, activists, and civil rights organisations gathered in front of the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Mitchells Plain police station on Friday (26 January) to protest against the terrifying wave of firearms theft from this police station. It came to light last week that…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum has today sent an urgent letter to the Western Cape District Commissioner, Maj Gen Vincent Beaton, and called for the reinstatement of the widow of the murdered Lt Col Charl Kinnear, Nicolette Kinnear’s, security detail. Cape Forum argues that the reinstatement of her and her family’s security detail, at…
Cape Forum’s Constitutional Court application to enable premiers to call provincial referendums is now putting pressure on Parliament to enact appropriate legislation for the holding of provincial referenda. Cape Forum approached the court in May 2023 to seek legal clarity on whether premiers indeed possess the legal power to call referendums. This followed conflicting legal…
The last thing that poor people and the country’s millions of unemployed can afford is to be misled by pres. Cyril Ramaphosa about social grants that will supposedly disappear if the ANC should lose the election. Attempting to gain electoral support in this way is reprehensible. This is the opinion of the civil rights organisation…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum believes the resignation of Dr. Bongani Mabaso, chief executive officer of the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), raises red flags about the growing problems at this agency. Mabaso’s early termination of his five-year contract follows barely eight months after he joined the agency in April this year and almost…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum and community members today protested in front of the Athlone Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town against bail for alleged throat slasher Arthur Sass who is accused of stabbing his wife, Genevieve Snyders, in the chest and slitting her throat on 28 November. Snyders was at a store to buy…
Possibility of irregularities in tender process must now be investigated While the Western Cape is caught in a serious stranglehold of crime, members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in this province have to make do with insufficient and antiquated technology or make use of personal WhatsApp messages. The civil rights organisation Cape Forum…
Cape Forum urges fairness and equality for small-scale fishers The civil rights organisation Cape Forum has today, on World Fisheries Day, made an urgent appeal to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment to be fair in determining the total allowable catch (TAC) of West Coast Rock Lobster for small-scale fishers. The United Nations’ Food…
The civil rights organisation Cape Forum embarked on an exciting green project last week (8 November) in collaboration with the Cape Forum partner Green for Life, the organisation’s chief executive officer, Jan Odendaal, and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. Sixty fruit trees were planted as part of this project at Carpe Diem,…
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