South African Constitution

Three Years Later, LFN’s Blue-Light VIP Protection Case Reaches Court

After more than three years of delay, LFN’s Blue-Light VIP Protection Case heads to an Equality Court inquiry on 22 October 2026. While billions are spent protecting politicians and other office-bearers, ordinary South Africans face murder, robbery and assault without comparable State protection. LFN maintains that no public office makes one life more valuable than another and that police protection must be available equally to every citizen facing the same danger. Read why the State seeks dismissal on technical grounds before answering the merits—and why this case must not disappear from public view.

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

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.

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