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.

COVID-19 task team and Cradle of Hope work together to distribute food

The COVID-19 task team today continued supplying food to people in distress and combined forces with Cradle of Hope, a non-profit organisation in Krugersdorp, to hand out food parcels to residents in need. The need in this community is gigantic and approximately 700 people showed up to receive a food parcel.

According to the task team, it is important to cooperate with other organisations to help alleviate the need for food. Cradle of Hope was closed down by the government earlier this month because they handed out prepared food. AfriForum and Solidarity Helping Hand are currently supporting this organisation with a court application to have the close-down declared invalid.

According to Johan Kruger, Head of Community Development at AfriForum, the court application is also aiming at declaring the guidelines that were recently promulgated by the Gauteng Premier to prevent people from distributing food directly to the community, as unconstitutional. “Institutions must be able to continue supplying food to hungry communities without government interference. It is important to fight against the centralisation of food and we welcome the Human Rights Commission’s decision that it is unconstitutional to forbid organisations such as Cradle of Hope from supplying prepared meals to people in distress.”

“The nationwide lockdown presents a lot of negative consequences to various people and it is now especially important that organisations that do have the ability, will work together to provide food to people in need. We’re concerned that people will die due to poverty and hunger if the regulations to centralise food continues,” says Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety.

Even though the task team welcomes the decision of the Human Rights Commission, Cameron says that people should however realise that the state will not necessarily take notice of it. “We can clearly see that the need in the country is starting to increase immensely. That is why we should continue with food distribution, otherwise hundreds of thousands of people will go hungry.”

According to Francois Rossouw, CEO of Saai, they will continue to support the task team by providing food to needy people.

Strengthen the task team’s hand by making a donation to the Solidarity Movement’s emergency fund:

Account holder:        Solidarity Helping Hand
Bank:                          FNB
Account number:      62 331 445 503
Branch:                      Centurion (branch code: 250 655)
Reference:                 Korona
Swift code:                 FIRN ZA JJ