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: DRAFT ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING POLICY MUST NOT LEGITIMISE ILLEGAL MINING

ByAfriForum 17/06/202103/09/2021

AfriForum submitted comments on the draft Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Policy on the 17 June 2021. The policy was published by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in the Government Gazette of 5 May 2021.

While AfriForum welcomes the publication of the draft policy and considers the publication a step in the right direction, it also has certain concerns with the draft policy.

“We emphasise two considerations which we believe should be foundational principles of any such policy. The first is that the policy must not legitimize illegal mining,” says Lambert de Klerk, Manager for Environmental Affairs at AfriForum.“The second is that the policy must not compromise the protection that the Constitution and in current legislation give to the environment and to property rights.”

AfriForum believes that it is important to comment on these policies and other regulations to not only protect our members, but to protect the environment in which they live so we can build a sustainable future.