Liberty Fighters

An Unfinished Brief: LFN Renews the Abortion-Law Challenge in Memory of Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann

Leave a Comment / Constitution, Health, History, Legal, Legislation, Real Story / By Reyno De Beer / 25 Sep 2026 / abortions, beginning of life, Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, Christian Lawyers Association, Dobbs v Jackson, fathers rights, foetus, LFN, Liberty Fighters, Reyno De Beer, Roe v Wade

Before becoming a judge, Eberhard Bertelsmann SC stood as senior counsel in the 1998 constitutional challenge to South Africa’s abortion law. Almost three decades later, while terminally ill, he joined LFN in rethinking how that unfinished constitutional battle could return to court upon a stronger evidential and legal foundation. Following his passing, LFN reaffirms its commitment to pursue that challenge — and will dedicate it to the memory of the man who spent his final months helping us prepare to ask the questions he believed South African law had never fully answered.

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.

How the Baboons Exposed the DA — and Put South Africa’s Legal Fraternity Under the Microscope

Leave a Comment / Animal Welfare, Environment, Legal, Legislation, Politics, Real Story / By Reyno De Beer / 12 Sep 2026 / Administrative Law, Animal Welfare, Baboon Conservation, Baboon Management, Baboon Relocation, Baboon Sanctuary, Cape Independence Party, Cape of Good Hope SPCA, Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team, Cape Peninsula Baboons, Cape Town Baboons, CapeNature, CapExit, City of Cape Town, Commissioner for the Environment, Constitutional Reform, Constitutional Rights, CPBMJTT, DA, DA Accountability, Data Centres, Democratic Alliance, Environmental Accountability, Environmental Approvals, Environmental Law, Government Overreach, Government Transparency, Holderness J, JSC, Judicial Accountability, Judicial Independence, Judicial Service Commission, Le Grange J, LFN, Liberty Fighters, Litigant Profiling, Mabindla-Boqwana JP, Pro Se Litigation, Public Interest Litigation, Public Participation, Recusal, Reyno De Beer, Rule of Law, SANParks, Self-Represented Litigants, South African Constitution, South African Courts, SPCA, Vexatious Litigation, Western Cape Baboons, Western Cape Constitution, Western Cape Government, Wildlife Protection

What began as a fight to protect Cape Peninsula baboons has exposed something far bigger: a constitutional environmental watchdog left vacant for decades, DA-led government structures pressing ahead with irreversible measures, a court case trapped in procedural battles, allegations of ‘litigant profiling’, punitive costs, and judicial conduct now before the JSC. The baboons did not create these problems — they merely led LFN far enough into the system to expose them.

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.

He Murdered His Family — But the Court Says He’s Sane: LFN Asks How That Makes Sense

Leave a Comment / Crime, Empowerment, Legal / By Reyno De Beer / 19 Aug 2026 / CPA, Criminal Procedure, LFN, Liberty Fighters, Reyno De Beer, sanity

A person brutally murders his entire family. Psychiatrists evaluate him. The court finds that he understood exactly what he was doing — and sends him to prison rather than a psychiatric institution. But if deliberately committing an unimaginable atrocity does not necessarily make someone legally insane, what exactly does it mean to be “sane”? LFN explores the fascinating divide between legal sanity, mental illness, criminal responsibility and what ordinary people regard as “normal” — and asks whether our criminal justice system needs another way of dealing with the most dangerous offenders. What is your opinion? [Comments Invited]