Baboon Action Plan

LFN TAKES BABOON BATTLE TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: “WE HAVE RUN OUT OF ROAD WHILE THE AUTHORITIES KEEP MOVING”

Leave a Comment / Constitution, Environment, Legal, Legislation, Politics, Real Story / By Reyno De Beer / 21 Sep 2026 / Alan Winde, Baboon Action Plan, Baboon Conservation, Baboon Management, Baboon Sanctuary, baboons, Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team, Cape Town, Cape Town Baboons, CapeNature, Commissioner for the Envirnoment, Constitutional Court, DA, Koggelfontein, LFN, Liberty Fighters, Reyno De Beer, SANParks, Western Cape Baboons

LFN has taken the Cape Peninsula baboon battle to the Constitutional Court after months of urgent litigation failed to secure effective protection against potentially irreversible sanctuary relocation. The breaking point came when all three pending High Court leave-to-appeal applications were set down for 18 September 2026 on extremely short notice, only for the hearing to be postponed into the fourth term because final typed judgments and professional transcripts were still unavailable, while no corresponding protection was put in place to preserve the baboons’ free-ranging status. With the authorities still able to move ahead while the appeals remain unresolved, LFN says it has “run out of road while the authorities keep moving”, and has now launched two urgent Constitutional Court applications seeking direct appellate relief and temporary protection to prevent the baboons from being irreversibly captured, removed and permanently confined before the constitutional and legality disputes are finally decided.

DA Faces Scrutiny as LFN Takes the Fight for the Baboons and the Environment Back to Court

Leave a Comment / Constitution, Environment, Legal, Politics, Real Story / By Reyno De Beer / 27 Aug 2026 / Baboon Action Plan, baboons, Commisioner for the Environment, DA, LFN, Liberty Fighters, Reyno De Beer

Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) is placing the DA under growing public scrutiny as the battle over the Cape Peninsula baboons returns to the Western Cape High Court tomorrow Friday, 28 August 2026 at 10h00. But this fight has become about far more than baboons: at its heart lies the still-vacant constitutional Office of the Commissioner for the Environment — an independent watchdog intended to protect the environmental interests of everyone in the Western Cape. With LFN calling for restraint before irreversible measures overtake the litigation, the question is now whether the DA will act, or leave the controversy to the very structures whose conduct is being challenged.

THE BABOONS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME — AND THE DA CAN NO LONGER LOOK AWAY

Leave a Comment / Constitution, Environment, Legal, Real Story, Uncategorized / By Reyno De Beer / 25 Aug 2026 / Baboon Action Plan, baboons, CPBMJTT, DA, LFN, Reyno De Beer

The Cape Peninsula baboons are running out of time. While the courts have spent months dealing with procedure, plans for capture, confinement and irreversible interventions have continued moving forward. But this case has now exposed something far bigger: the Western Cape Constitution created an independent Commissioner for the Environment — an office never properly operationalised, and which the DA-led Province has instead sought to remove. On Friday, 28 August 2026 at 10h00, LFN returns to the Western Cape High Court in a critical hearing that could determine how this fight proceeds. The baboons may have opened the door, but what lies behind it concerns environmental accountability across the entire Western Cape.