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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AfriForum in court regarding Tshwane’s budget

By 01/10/202003/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum was in the Northern Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today on an urgent basis to put aside the Tshwane Metro’s budget approved by Mpho Nawa, administrator of the Tshwane Metro. Judge Portia Phahlane found that the matter was indeed urgent, but judgement was reserved.

According to the organisation the administrator overreached his authority by approving the final budget and the correct processes were also not followed in approving the budget. There is a fundamental difference between the executive and legislative powers of the council. The ability to approve the final budget, lies solely with the municipal council. The administrator cannot circumvent the whole democratic process by approving the budget himself.

“There is a fundamental difference between the executive and the legislative powers of a municipal council. The administrator is only an interim custodian and cannot execute legislative decisions such as approving a budget,” says Morné Mostert, AfriForum’s manager for local government affairs.

The Constitution requires that the premier must have intervened to ensure that only an interim budget was approved. This would have ensured that the metro could still continue to normally deliver services and collect their income legally. The premier failed to perform his duty and that is why AfriForum was forced to bring this application before court.