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 takes legal action to ensure transparency with Eskom contracts

ByAfriForum 12/07/202212/07/2022

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has served a public access to information application (PAIA) on Eskom. In the application, AfriForum demands information on active contracts that the national power provider currently has with various service providers, including coal suppliers as well as transport companies that transport the coal.

According to the organisation, the government’s track record regarding the management of state-owned companies leaves much to be desired.

“State-owned companies have now become synonymous with corruption and mismanagement, and we would not be surprised if the handing out of contracts to incompetent service providers, with political ties, is one of the major contributing factors to the country’s load shedding crisis,” says Morné Mostert, AfriForum’s Manager of Local Government Affairs.

“The information we seek to obtain with this application will enable us to take further action against corrupt and incompetent officials and service providers. Despite load shedding, Eskom as a state entity should not keep South Africa in the dark about how it distributes contracts and tenders,” concludes Mostert.