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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Success: Public Protector says use of SANDF aircraft for ANC trip to Harare is illegal

ByAfriForum 01/10/202201/10/2022

The Public Protector (PP), following the civil rights organisation AfriForum’s complaint in 2020, found that the use of a SANDF aircraft to transport an ANC delegation to Harare, Zimbabwe, violated the law. Former Minister of Defense and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, and six other ANC delegates departed from the Waterkloof Air Force Base on 8 September 2020 and returned on 9 September 2020. The total costs associated with the trip were R231 973, aside from refreshments on board the plane which amounted to R15 558.

The PP found that Mapisa-Nqakula did not have the authorisation or permission to transport the ANC delegation in a SANDF aircraft, which was only approved to transport her and her staff to Harare and back. So, according to the PP, state resources were illegally used to improperly benefit a political party. The PP instructed that the president must issue a directive within 30 days of receiving the report, prescribing compliance with the ministerial handbook in relation to the use of state funds for air travel.

“It is absolutely despicable that the ANC used state funds illegally to benefit the party. This action shows the ANC’s contempt for the people of this country, as well as that the ANC considers itself above the law. AfriForum will continue to fight in the interest of the public against the ANC’s abuse of state funds, mismanagement and corruption,” says Reiner Duvenage, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.