Grootfontein Agricultural College: R10 million for repairs after pressure from AfriForum Youth

The pressure that AfriForum Youth has applied on the Grootfontein Agricultural College in Middelburg in the Eastern Cape in reaction to the poor living conditions and general facilities at the College have compelled the Management to release about R10 million for repairs and upgrades. 

A Knapsack tour in the footsteps of the Rebels

A Knapsack tour in the footsteps of the Rebels

It was the Afrikaner’s darkest hour when the diehards of the Anglo Boer War locked horns twelve years later: On the one side the government forces (Kakies) of Prime Minister Louis Botha and his Minister of Defence, Jan Smuts – and on the other, the rebellion commandoes of General Koos de la Rey and Commandant Generals Christiaan de Wet and Christiaan Beyers. Only a few months later, all was over. The end was bitterer than that of 1902.

• Koos de la Rey
• Christiaan de Wet
• Jan Kemp
• Jopie Fourie
• Manie Maritz

How does such a tragedy strike?
Who were the role players?
How does one look back on it after a century?

Pack your knapsack and tour the Kalahari in the footsteps of Generals Kemp and Maritz with AfriForum Youth

Date: 1–9 October 2016
Costs: Free
RSVP: Send your name, surname, cell number and campus name before or on 15 September 2016 to marike@afriforum.co.za.

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• 2 500 km
• Six destinations
• Nine days of fun and adventure
• Learn more about your culture
• Learn more about your history
• Learn more about your heritage
• Learn more about yourself

Maties SRC election

Why must I participate in the student council elections?

A competent student council (SRC):

1. Communicates with students and is aware of the latest developments;
2. Addresses complaints received from students;
3. Avoids political coaxing and does what is really in the interests of students;
4. Prevents a small group of anarchists from speaking on behalf of all students;
5. Takes the opinions of students into consideration during decision making and does not rely on their own opinion only;
6. Doesn’t allow itself to be dictated by management;
7. Attempts to keep the students happy, not management;
8. Speaks on your behalf at the council and senate;
9. Doesn’t hesitate to approach the courts in order to protect the rights of students.

Vote for a student council (SRC) if you are fed up with:

1. Violence on campus;
2. A small group of anarchists that apparently speaks on your behalf;
3. An SRC that doesn’t listen to students;
4. An SRC that doesn’t take any action with regards to the complaints of students;
5. An SRC that takes decisions without considering the opinions of students;
6. An SRC that only attempts to keep political parties happy;
7. An SRC that is more interested in keeping management happy rather than students;
8. An SRC that doesn’t act on behalf of students, but rather allows itself to be dictated by management;
9. An SRC that is too scared and isolated to approach the courts if deemed necessary;
10. An SRC that gives way to intimidation.

Youngest news concerning the SRC election:

1. SRC candidates appeal against student court order
2. High Court stops SRC election without AfriForum candidates
3. AfriForum Youth approaches High Court after US excludes students from SRC elections

AfriForum Youth supports the following candidates:
 

Bernard Pieters MSc Geohidrologie 8th year

Thea Bester BSc Chemie en Polimeerwetenskappe 2nd year

Netanje van Niekerk BA Filosofie, Politiek en Ekonomie 2nd year

Ashwin Maloy BA Internasionale Studies 1st year

No place for Afrikaner heritage in so-called democracy

“It is clear that the EFF remains a radical ‘blacks only’ political party. Their actions prove to citizens that there is no place for Afrikaner heritage in this country,” said Ian Cameron, AfriForum Youth’s Spokesperson, after the EFF yesterday night painted various Church Street signs with red paint.

 

Kovsie students take a stance against removal of statues

AfriForum Youth is delighted about the initiative taken by students at the University of the Free State (UFS) to retain the statues of former Presidents CR Swart and MT Steyn on this campus. Students yesterday hung posters around the statue of former President MT Steyn with the following message: “I fought against colonialism, why do you want to remove me?” The text which appears on the posters, was translated from Afrikaans.