Cape Forum’s Constitutional Court application on provincial referendums puts pressure on Parliament

Cape Forum’s Constitutional Court application on provincial referendums puts pressure on Parliament

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…

Ramaphosa’s attempt to scare grant beneficiaries is reprehensible, says civil rights organisation

Ramaphosa’s attempt to scare grant beneficiaries is reprehensible, says civil rights organisation

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…

SITA CEO’s resignation raises red flags about more problems at agency

SITA CEO’s resignation raises red flags about more problems at agency

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…

Cape Forum protests against bail for slasher who slit wife’s throat

Cape Forum protests against bail for slasher who slit wife’s throat

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…

Antiquated police equipment: Cape Forum demands answers from SITA

Antiquated police equipment: Cape Forum demands answers from SITA

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’s small-scale fishers have to catch lobster for starvation wages

Cape’s small-scale fishers have to catch lobster for starvation wages

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…

Cape Forum goes green: Plants 60 fruit trees at school in George

Cape Forum goes green: Plants 60 fruit trees at school in George

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,…

Cape Forum plants living monument for female victims of violence in Mossel Bay

Cape Forum plants living monument for female victims of violence in Mossel Bay

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…

Bela disaster: ANC must brace itself – communities will not give in

Bela disaster: ANC must brace itself – communities will not give in

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…

Kinnear assassination: Police running devious cover-up campaign

Kinnear assassination: Police running devious cover-up campaign

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…

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