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.

AFRIFORUM WRITES ATTORNEY’S LETTER TO RAMAPHOSA REQUESTING COPY OF PROPOSED BEE VACCINE POLICY

ByAfriForum 29/01/202102/09/2021

The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s legal team today directed an attorney’s letter to Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa requesting written confirmation whether government intends on applying BEE measures and requirements to the procurement, distribution and administering of COVID-19 vaccines, as has been reported recently in the media.

Furthermore, AfriForum requested feedback on whether there has been a formal policy adopted regarding the above, as well as a copy of the adopted policy, should it be the case that government has already adopted such a formal policy.

“If it is the case that government is going ahead with BEE criteria with regards to vaccines, as has been reported, it would mean the government is prioritising a racial agenda over saving lives. In the past BEE policies have proven to be nothing more than facilitators of corruption, cadre deployment and enriching the politically connected. Based on the overwhelming past evidence in this regard, one can reasonably conclude that injecting BEE into vaccine policies will be for the same corrupt purposes. A government that has already looted funds intended for the vulnerable, the struggling and the sick during the lockdown, has forfeited being given the benefit of the doubt,” says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.