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.

Intercultural cooperation | Media statements

AfriForum and Batlharo Boo Tokwana-Ba-Ga-Masibi forge ties

ByAfriForum 04/04/202304/04/2023

AfriForum and the Batlharo Boo Tokwana-Ba-Ga-Masibi Traditional Community of Disaneng, west of Mahikeng in the Northwest Province, forged ties during a meeting between representatives of AfriForum and the Traditional Council of the Batlharo Boo Tokwana-Ba-Ga-Masibi on 3 April 2023. The parties agreed to specifically collaborate on agricultural development, community self-sufficiency and ensuring the ownership of the land of this Traditional Community.

“In Setswana we have a saying: Modiri ga se moji. The meaning of this saying is that the one who does the work is not rewarded. The establishment of this mutual recognition and collaboration agreement is not for ourselves, but for our children and the generations that will follow them. Our reality is that different cultural communities are living in the same country; it provides us with the opportunity to learn from each other – it also requires us to live in harmony to ensure a prosperous future for our children,” says Kgosi Mogakolodi Masibi, Kgosi (senior traditional leader) of the Batlharo Boo Tokwana-Ba-Ga-Masibi Traditional Community.

“For a solution to work it must be based on reality – it must be built on truth. Our reality is that there are many different cultural communities that call the southern tip Africa their home. The plans we make for the future must take this reality into account, that is why AfriForum is building a network of cultural communities on the basis of mutual recognition and respect. We believe that strengthening community federalism, built from the bottom upwards based on cultural identity is key to solving the problems created by the failing state,” says Barend Uys, Head of Intercultural Relations and Cooperation at AfriForum.

Traditional leadership is an important community institution of traditional communities and have a critical role to play to preserve language, culture and heritage. This is in turn important for maintaining and developing cultural identity and the sustainable continued existence of self-reliant communities.