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…
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…
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