LFN’s Year-End Review and a Straight Talk With Our Supporters
Excerpt: This year, Liberty Fighters Network took some of the most powerful offices in South Africa back to the witness stand of the Constitution — from secret vaccination decisions, to school-admission overreach, to WHO treaty enforcement and the unfinished business of the lockdown disaster. While government works with full-time teams and taxpayer funding, LFN continues this fight with minimal hands and maximum responsibility. As the courts go on recess, the pressure on us does not stop. If you value this work and want LFN to enter 2026 with strength, consider supporting our year-end effort through our website. Not as charity — as an investment into South Africa’s constitutional future.
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There is a strange silence in a courtroom after everyone has left.
A laptop is still open, files are stacked, lights are off, the recorder is dead still.
But that silence is exactly where Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) lives.
Because when the court doors close, our work – and the pressure – does not stop.
This year, with the limited hands we have and the immense responsibility placed on them, we have dragged the most powerful offices in the Republic back to the witness stand of the Constitution. We want to look you, our supporters, in the eye and tell you what you have helped make possible — and why, at year-end, we need you to decide whether this work continues at full strength into 2026.
Not as charity.
As an investment into the legal future of this country.
Subsequently, we cite only five (5) out of more than 20 legal challenges we prosecute against the State.
1. Poultry Vaccination: The DA Leader in the Witness Box
In LFN v Minister of Agriculture, Mr John Henry Steenhuisen, we are challenging South Africa’s first mass vaccination of poultry against alleged HPAI. This case questions decisions taken behind closed doors, without transparent record, consultation or public participation.
We are not saying “never vaccinate” if it is proven to work.
We are saying:
If you touch the food chain of the nation, you do not do it in the dark.
LFN demands full disclosure, lawful process and compliance with PAJA.
This case is ultimately about the integrity of the leader of the Democratic Alliance’s constitutional decision-making, which claims it is the best option to govern after the ANC.
2. Lockdown, Round Two: Declaring the Extensions Illegal
In LFN v Minister of CoGTA, we are asking the court to declare that the National State of Disaster legally ended two years earlier than government claimed.
Why litigate this now?
Because unless the court clarifies the boundary, the Government may redraw it at will.
We are also asking the court to open the door to class action damages for all of us who suffered unlawful restrictions.
This case is about memory – and accountability that does not expire.
3. WHO, IHR and the Fight Against Secret Treaty Rule
In LFN v President of the RSA, et al, we are challenging the enforcement of amended International Health Regulations without parliamentary approval or public engagement.
LFN argues that the current Act enabling this is unconstitutional, and that international obligations may not simply be “published into law” without democratic scrutiny.
In a dramatic turn of events, the State admitted that LFN is correct and has agreed to a draft order in principle. Against all odds and criticism, a massive victory was achieved for all the citizens!
This case is a barricade against technocratic rule by proclamation.
4. School Admission and Vaccine Mandates: Our Children Are Not Collateral
In LFN v Minister of Basic Education, we are challenging Draft Regulation 14, which seeks to make proof of immunisation a requirement for admission to public schools.
The empowering Act does not permit this.
The Constitution does not tolerate it.
Education cannot become conditional upon a medical procedure.
This is possibly the first legal challenge in South Africa to pre-emptively block such regulatory overreach.
5. Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccines: Cattle and the Hidden File
In LFN v Minister of Agriculture (FMD Vaccines), we again confront secretive, rushed decision-making by the DA leader, John Steenhuisen, as the Agricultural Minister, without transparent records.
The principle is the same as in poultry:
If government wants to intervene at national scale, it must justify itself openly and lawfully.
What All These Cases Have in Common
A pattern runs through all of them:
- Executive overreach
- Secrecy and missing records
- Rights treated as obstacles
- Ordinary South Africans carrying the consequences
And through all this, LFN continues as it always has:
lean, independent, unbought, and driven by conviction rather than a payroll.
Let us be transparent with our supporters:
LFN is not an organisation with an office full of staff, analysts, or researchers.
Most of the work — the drafting, the arguments, the filings, the responses, the midnight revisions — rests on one set of hands that has simply refused to give up.
This is why your support matters.
Not because an institution needs to “keep the lights on”,
But because a single overburdened engine is pulling a national load that should have been shared by many — but isn’t.
The Part Nobody Likes Talking About
Behind all these battles is one reality:
this fight has personal cost.
There is no corporate sponsor waiting in the wings.
There is no political party footing counsel’s bills.
There is no benefactor paying rent or covering the sacrifice that comes with carrying more than twenty major court challenges and hundreds of individual matters simultaneously.
There is simply the work, the pressure, the responsibility — and the handful of South Africans who believe in what LFN does.
So when we speak of December, we are not talking about “many families” who must celebrate Christmas.
We are talking about the human cost of ensuring that everyone else’s rights are defended, even when support wanes and the battle grows heavier.
Your year-end contribution is not about pity.
It is about recognising the value of keeping this legal engine running for the whole country.
This December: What Your Support Really Buys
A contribution through our website’s Donations or Gifts page helps to:
- Keep these court challenges alive through summer recess.
- Prevent LFN from being crushed by cost orders.
- Ensure that the person driving this work can rest and regroup just long enough to return to court fully armed in January.
- Strengthen the only legally active watchdog that has consistently fought the State across multiple ministries.
You are not funding a social club or a political outfit.
You are fuelling a constitutional defence unit operated on sheer determination.
A Simple Request
If you believe that this work deserves to continue — not limping, but standing firmly — then consider a once-off year-end contribution.
Whatever you can justify in good conscience is appreciated.
Not because LFN is begging.
Because South Africa needs at least one organisation that refuses to back down from unlawful authority, even when it stands almost alone.
Visit our website, go to Donations or Gifts (follow the in-post links), and help us ensure that when the courts reopen in January, LFN is still there — not weakened, not overwhelmed, but ready.
Kindly consider supporting our work by giving a donation or gift of your choice.
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