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,…
This week, the civil rights organisation Cape Forum, in collaboration with Green for Live, the Mossel Bay Community Soup Kitchen and the Mossel Bay Municipality, planted 50 indigenous and fruit trees as a living monument for female victims of gender-based violence at a sports ground in Highway Park, Mossel Bay. A group of women, who…
The ANC government must brace itself, because diverse communities are now truly standing together for the first time and will not allow the Bela legislation to be turned into a Bela disaster. This is according to the civil rights organisation Cape Forum after it has just been announced that the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill…
The South African Police Service’s (SAPS) deliberate failure to act according to the recommendations of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) report regarding the assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear, indicates a deceitful cover-up campaign that is being driven from the heart of the SAPS. The civil rights organisation Cape Forum maintains that Kinnear’s assassination…
The South African Police Service (SAPS) confirmed at a media conference held in Cape Town earlier today that progress has now finally been made in the internal investigation regarding the murder of Lt Col Charl Kinnear, and that the report and investigation have now been completed. Kinnear was murdered in cold blood more than three…
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…
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