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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Police fails communities by not acting against EFF bullies

ByAfriForum 07/09/202003/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today requested Gen. Bheki Cele, Minister of Police, to act decisively against the perpetrators who vandalised and damaged Clicks shops across the country. AfriForum also pointed out that the SAPS had failed in their duty to protect the citizenry against these persons, who think that they can violate the country’s laws without any consequences.

This follows a race row that exploded after a contentious Clicks advertisement. Various EFF leaders incited their followers to “attack” this chain store.

“Julius Malema and other EFF leaders’ public incitement of violence should have placed the SAPS on standby to prevent what we have seen today. Yet, it seems that not a single person has been arrested whose crimes had been recorded on video today,” says Marnus Kamfer, Legal and Risk Manager at AfriForum.

According to Kamfer, the EFF and their followers’ lawless actions together with the SAPS inability to bring these guilty parties to book are once again proof that communities should organise and safeguard themselves. “Communities and individuals can and must protect themselves within the framework of the law. Today’s events underscore this once again.”