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.

Expropriation Media statements | Media statements

AfriForum presents politically inconvenient facts about land and land reform in presentation before parliament

ByAfriForum 27/09/202327/09/2023

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today continued its fight against the Expropriation Bill [B 23 – 2020] with an oral presentation before the Select Committee on Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure in the Parliamentary Precinct (National Council of Provinces) in Cape Town. This follows after a further opportunity for public comments was opened regarding this controversial bill.

In March 2023, AfriForum submitted written comments against the Expropriation Bill as well as the Gauteng Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Infrastructure Development and Property Management. In June 2023, AfriForum representatives also delivered oral presentations opposing the bill at various provincial-level opportunities for comment countrywide.

According to Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, expropriation without compensation is state sanctioned theft – legalised looting – deeply immoral and a human rights violation. It is an inhumane, ill-conceived policy motivated by a combination of corrupt greed, ideological possession, cynical electioneering and a philosophy of revenge.

“AfriForum is however not an organisation which only opposes destructive policies. A large portion of my presentation today consisted of providing carefully considered, sustainable solutions, as well,” concludes Van Zyl.

AfriForum has made it easy for the public to comment against this bill. Simply visit www.onteiening.co.za.