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 ready to take legal action against intended state of disaster

ByAfriForum 14/07/202214/07/2022

The civil rights organisation AfriForum is ready to approach the court on an urgent basis, should the government decide to reinstate a state of disaster. According to media reports, President Cyril Ramaphosa is apparently considering announcing a state of emergency, as part of his government’s action plan to end load shedding.

According to AfriForum, the government has repeatedly proven in the past few years that it cannot be trusted with the extensive forces that a state of disaster gives it and this state of disaster will probably be abused just like the Covid-19 state of disaster to enrich politicians, handing out unlawful/unfair tenders and escaping parliamentary scrutiny.

“It would appear that the Disaster Management Act has now become the government’s new favourite vehicle to facilitate and carry out corrupt activities. The law is clearly being abused and a ‘disaster’ caused by mismanagement certainly does not fall within the scope of the law,” says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.

“The fact that power outages have plagued South Africa for 14 years now due to the ANC’s maladministration, race obsession, corruption and clinging to Eskom as a power monopoly, is definitely a disaster. That is precisely why we cannot trust the government with extra powers, unless we want to add a second disaster to the power crisis,” concludes Van Zyl.