Nersa rushed through municipal tariff approvals
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has been accused of rushing through municipalities' electricity hike approvals without proper assessments of their validity.
Sunday newspaper Rapport has obtained information showing that...
Afriforum takes Nersa to court to block municipal electricity hikes
Afriforum has launched an urgent legal application that could stop municipalities from increasing electricity tariffs next month.
The civil rights organisation has asked the Pretoria High Court to block the National Energy...
Rustenburg residents and businesses must pay for replacing municipality's electricity equipment
Residents of Rustenburg in the North West have been paying for parts to repair electricity infrastructure belonging to the city themselves, Rapport reports.
The issue was highlighted by civil...
Afriforum begins court battle over 5-year licence card validity
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard Afriforum's legal application calling for the scrapping of the five-year validity periods on South Africa's driver's licence cards on Monday, 7 August 2023.
The civil rights...
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Afriforum takes UJ to court for allegedly "hijacking" solar panel patent
Afriforum has served the University of Johannesburg (UJ) with a court papers over a PAIA application seeking information about the alleged "hijacking" of the intellectual property and assets of a former professor at the...
Afriforum starting its own power company — with nuclear plans in the pipeline
Civil rights organisation Afriforum is launching its own electricity generation company, with plans to deploy South Africa's first Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR).
The organisation's chief executive Kallie Kriel...
Why South African driver's licence cards expire every five years
South Africa's driving licence cards are valid for five years because the material they were originally made from was believed to only last that long.
That is according to court documents filed by transport minister Fikile...
Why it's unlawful for driving licence cards to expire in South Africa
Afriforum has explained why it believes that driver's licence cards should never expire and is launching a legal case to challenge the requirement to renew them.
The civil rights organisation recently announced it would be...
Illegal for South African driver's licence cards to expire — court battle launched
Afriforum has launched a legal challenge to the 5-year validity period for driver's licence cards. It also contends that fines issued against motorists with expired cards are illegal.
On Thursday, the civil...
DStv blocks AfriForumTV launch video on YouTube
DStv had YouTube take down the launch video of a new Afrikaans streaming service based on a suspicious copyright claim.
The target of South Africa's biggest pay-TV broadcaster was AfriForumTV, a new Afrikaans-focused video streaming service...
Driver's licence chaos — legal action threatened over renewal deadline
AfriForum has announced that it has instructed its lawyers to prepare a letter for the Department of Transport demanding that the grace period for renewing expired driving licence cards be extended beyond 31 March 2022...
Matric exam results get green light
The Pretoria High Court has ruled that the Department of Basic Education should continue publishing the matric results on public platforms, including newspapers and online.
The Department of Basic Education says that it will abide by the North Gauteng High...
Legal action against unlawful spying by police in South Africa
AfriForum says it has submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to the joint standing committee on intelligence following reports of widespread unlawful wiretapping by South Africa's security cluster.
The civil...
BIG NEWS: #AfriForum & #GerrieNel have officially been appointed by the #Botswana government to represent them in a high-profile money-laundering & fraud case, in which businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe (sister-in-law of @CyrilRamaphosa & wife of Jeff Radebe) is implicated.
Shocking...
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AfriForum's CEO says apartheid was not a crime against humanity.
Eusebius McKaiser, who hosted Kallie Kriel on his Radio 702 show on Monday to discuss farm murders, asked him what he...
AfriForum to challenge Eskom’s right to cut power to municipalities
AfriForum and its commercial interest group AfriBusiness will apply for an urgent interdict in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday to prevent Eskom from cutting electricity to five municipalities that have not paid their bills.
Criminal cases opened against South African Facebook users
AfriForum has laid criminal charges against Facebook users for allegedly inciting violence on the social media platform.