Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

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AfriForum will not further appeal against the hate speech case ruling that limits the complete ban on the old flag

ByAfriForum 25/04/202325/04/2023

The civil rights organisation AfriForum, in light of the fact that the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein modified the Equality Court’s initial order that “any” display of the old flag is hate speech, by now specifically prohibiting “unsolicited public display”, decided not to oppose appeal against this ruling.

AfriForum remains opposed to banning orders regarding symbols. After thorough discussion, AfriForum decided not to spend any further legal resources on the old flag case by taking it to the Constitutional Court. AfriForum will continue to monitor the situation to prevent the flag case from opening the doors to increasing banning orders on other fronts.

According to Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum, AfriForum will now focus its legal resources on fighting the dangerous double standards on hate speech in the current political order and in the courts. “There are no grounds for a symbol displayed without a call to violence to be declared hate speech, while the Kill the Boer chant, through which the EFF incites murder on ethnic grounds, is considered acceptable by the courts,” says Van Zyl.

“The farmers of our country are still brutally harassed and targeted by the EFF’s hateful Kill the Boer chant. AfriForum’s focus is to defeat these harmful double standards on behalf of farmers and the ethnic minority groups who are endangered by this chant,” concludes Van Zyl.

AfriForum is currently still waiting for a court date in the Supreme Court of Appeal for the Kill the Boer case.