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.

Media statements

AfriForum condemns Totalsports’s removal of Etzebeth stand-up posters

By 29/10/201903/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum condemns the decision by Totalsports to remove the stand-up posters of Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth from its shops. AfriForum also accuses the retailer of allowing itself to be tainted by racial politics.

Ernst Roets, Head of Policy and Action at AfriForum, says that Totalsports’s decision shows that the retailer group is willing to be dragged down by a racially motivated political narrative.

“Although Etzebeth is accused of making racist remarks at a brown person, he also denies these accusations. The case has not yet been heard and no ruling has yet been made on the facts. Despite this, the retailer group chooses to side against Etzebeth, thereby fuelling racial tension.

“Even if Totalsports says that it doesn’t want to take sides in the matter, the effect of its actions reflects that it has already declared him a controversial figure,” Roets concludes.