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.

Campaigns and petitions

Petition against Oudtshoorn Municipality to oppose unfair increases in rates and taxes

Byafriforum 23/04/202003/11/2020

The Oudtshoorn Municipality is acting unfairly towards its tax-paying citizens and sending them into hardship. The worst drought to have ever hit the area with its devastating impact on the local agricultural sector, as well as the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent cancellation of the KKNK resulting in immeasurable damage to our tourism industry, should be reason enough to demand that the exorbitant increases in tariffs, rates and taxes be stopped. Independent studies have shown that Oudtshoorn’s property taxes are disproportionate compared to the neighbouring and comparable towns.

The proposed increases in rates and taxes have already been published on the municipal web page. The planned increases range from 6% to 12%. You can add your voice to our complaint against this exploitation. Give AfriForum’s Oudtshoorn branch the mandate to oppose this on your behalf, by signing the petition.