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LFN vs City, CapeNature & SANParks: High Court to Hear Urgent Baboon Governance Case

On Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 10h00, the High Court Western Cape Division, Cape Town will hear an urgent application brought by Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) against the Democratic Alliance (DA) run City of Cape Town, CapeNature and SANParks under case number 2026-024184.

At stake is not simply baboon management — but the legality, transparency and traceability of the Final Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Action Plan. LFN contends that irreversible implementation steps cannot proceed without clearly identified, lawfully authorised administrative decisions capable of judicial scrutiny. After the City and CapeNature refused to support a remote hearing, the matter will now be heard in open court. Members of the public are invited to attend.

LFN Takes On the DA: Western Cape Government Dragged to Court Over Baboon Plan

Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) has launched an urgent High Court application against the DA-led Western Cape Government, including Premier Alan Winde, to halt irreversible actions contemplated under the so-called Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Action Plan. At the heart of the case is not only the fate of the Cape baboons, but the Western Cape Government’s bypassing of lawful environmental oversight, its failure to appoint the constitutionally required Commissioner for the Environment, and its use of task-team structures to obscure accountability. LFN says conservation cannot be reduced to political expediency, nor can permanent wildlife interventions be forced through while constitutional obligations are ignored.

LFN Clarifies the UK Digital ID Narrative: The Illusion of Victory and the Reality of Surveillance

Digital IDs were not defeated in the UK — only a symbol was.
While social media celebrates a so-called “victory”, the real digital identity system quietly remains intact. Liberty Fighters Network cuts through the noise to explain why this moment is being misunderstood, why mass surveillance did not suddenly disappear, and why the real fight has never been about a card or an app, but about how our biometric data is processed, shared, and abused. This article challenges comforting illusions and calls for a shift from symbolic resistance to meaningful protection of privacy and freedom.

LFN Takes Aim at SA’s Alcohol Epidemic

On a short drive along the N1 from Acasia to Midrand, my family and I encountered two separate intoxicated drivers — late morning, on a busy highway, still drinking while driving. That moment, together with recent revelations about South Africa’s R25 billion illicit alcohol underworld, forced a hard reckoning. This is not an abstract debate about “responsible drinking”. It is a confrontational call to South Africans to reconsider alcohol’s role in our crime, violence, family breakdown, moral erosion, and even our ability to resist corruption — starting now, at the beginning of the year.

LFN vs The Western Cape: The Battle to Restore the Environmental Commissioner the DA Buried

For 25 years the DA-led Western Cape has ignored its own Constitution by refusing to appoint the Commissioner for the Environment — a watchdog meant to protect this province’s residents from unlawful and unaccountable environmental decisions.

The baboon crisis has now exposed this failure. While the CPBMJTT operates without independence or legal authority, the constitutional oversight body has never been activated.

LFN and Monkey Valley have filed a formal constitutional complaint to revive this long-buried office. If authorities push ahead with irreversible actions, we will seek an urgent interdict to force lawful oversight at last.

This fight is no longer only about baboons.
It is about restoring the constitutional safeguard that the DA denied the Western Cape for a generation.

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