Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

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AfriForum immediately demands water from the Ugu Municipality

ByAfriForum 26/02/202526/02/2025

AfriForum’s Lower South Coast branch is calling on the Ugu District Municipality to immediately supply water to all water points that the Municipality has made available to communities. The purpose of these water points is to bring relief to residents who are without water, but the Municipality is not doing its part to fill these points with water.

The organisation is receiving many complaints from members about the Municipality’s inadequate water supply to communities due to water outages. Areas that are worst affected are Palm Beach, Munster, Leisure Bay, Port Edward, Banners Rest, Hibberdene, Umzumbe, Phumula and Sea Park.

On 25 February, AfriForum sent a letter to the Ugu District Municipality seeking clarity on the frequent water outages on the South Coast, especially in the far northern and southern parts of the Ugu District Municipal Area.

“Some of our communities only have access to running water for two to three hours a week or every other week. There are also very serious water leaks that take days to repair, while litres of purified water are lost,” says JP Nel, AfriForum’s Chairperson of the Lower South Coast branch.

In the letter, AfriForum demands answers from the Municipality on why it is taking so long to repair these water leaks.

“We see daily how the state, including municipal infrastructure, is getting worse and we will have to do more to promote access to clean water,” says Eugene van Aswegen, AfriForum’s Provincial Coordinator for KwaZulu-Natal.

AfriForum will continue to apply pressure on the Municipality to ensure that the Lower South Coast’s water problems are a thing of the past.

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