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: Estate Agency Affairs Board’s proposed resolution is blatant racism

Byafriforum 02/12/201903/11/2020

AfriForum today wrote a letter to Lindiwe Sisulu, the minister of human settlements, and the Estate Agency Affairs Board, demanding the scrapping of the board’s proposed resolution to unfairly benefit “previously disadvantaged individuals”. The civil rights organisation is also in the process of obtaining legal advice, should the resolution be implemented.

During a presentation about complying with property law, the board proposed the implementation of a resolution “to fulfil its mandate from the minister of human settlements to transform the property industry”. The resolution entails that “previously disadvantaged” estate agents can apply for:

Exemption of payments for fidelity fund certificates, continuing professional development (CPD) and fines;
Exemption of compliance with CPD requirements;
Exemption of compliance with educational qualifications; and
Exemption of the submission of audit reports for trust accounts.

“According to the proposed resolution, different rules should apply to different groups, depending on their skin colour. It is unacceptable that some people will in effect be exempt from being accountable, while others are forced to comply to certain standards,” says Monique Taute, Head of AfriForum’s Anti-corruption Unit.

According to Taute, the implementation of this resolution will create a dangerous precedent for other professional bodies.

“Control measures such as these exist precisely to protect the public and to avoid them from being exploited. It doesn’t make any sense that some people would be exempt from these measures. On the contrary, it is a grave injustice,” concludes Taute.

Visit http://artikels.afriforum.co.za/en/estate-agency-affairs-boards-proposed-resolution-is-blatant-racism/ to support AfriForum’s campaign against this blatant racism.

Click here for the letter.