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.

Media statements

AfriForum on Jacob Zuma: The former president not going back to prison is confirmation that ANC cadres are above the law

ByAfriForum 11/08/202311/08/2023

The civil rights organisation AfriForum considers the Department of Correctional Services’ decision to grant Jacob Zuma remission of his sentence an insult to justice and the rule of law. Time spent on parole that was granted unlawfully does not count towards a sentence served. In 2023 the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling that former Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser’s granting of medical parole in 2021 to Zuma just two months into his 15-month sentence was unlawful.

The Department’s narrative that Zuma was one of thousands of inmates who were granted special remission of sentences in an effort to alleviate overcrowding in prisons appears to be nothing more than a smokescreen to help a powerful politician escape justice.

“There is no more privileged and protected position in South Africa than being an ANC cadre. Zuma’s special treatment and evading of justice proves this once again. It is clear that the ANC will ensure that none of its comrades ever serve time behind bars, even if it makes a mockery of the rule of law in this country,” says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.

“The Jacob Zuma case proves that as long as the ANC are in power you can rest assured that anyone close to the party is effectively above the law,” Van Zyl concludes.