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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Cadre deployment: Ruling comes down to approval of systemic injustice

ByAfriForum 21/02/202421/02/2024

The bid to declare cadre deployment unconstitutional was dismissed this morning in the Gauteng High Court – a decision which, according to AfriForum, comes down to the approval of the ANC’s policy of cadre deployment. The court’s upsetting decision thus encourages obvious and systemic injustice and therefore discrimination based on political affiliation. The civil rights organisation acted as a friend of the court in the case in which the Democratic Alliance (DA) asked that cadre deployment be declared unconstitutional and illegal.

AfriForum still maintains that cadre deployment deprives those who are not ANC members of job opportunities, that it is in contravention of the Constitution, and that its misuse has already resulted in several catastrophes, including large-scale corruption and state capture.

According to Louis Boshoff, Campaign Officer at AfriForum, cadre deployment is the political engine through which the ANC ensures that its policy is carried out to the extreme in the public sector.

“The court today left the door wide open for the ANC to now blatantly show its true communistic colours,” Boshoff states.

The Constitutional Court’s ruling earlier this month, in which the ANC was ordered to hand over all records (dating back to 2013) of its cadre deployment committee to the DA, stands in stark contrast to today’s decision.

Boshoff expresses AfriForum’s disappointment with today’s court ruling: “The ANC now has the opportunity to completely erase the already blurred line between government and ruling party and pave the way for further discrimination and self-enrichment.”

AfriForum will continue to oppose the cadre deployment policy and expose the consequent corruption.

If today’s judgment is taken on appeal, AfriForum will continue to participate in the court case.