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 requests urgent meeting with Ramaphosa

ByAfriForum 22/10/202003/11/2020

AfriForum directed an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa today in which the civil rights organisation requests an urgent meeting with the President to discuss farm murders and the future of Afrikaners as a cultural community in South Africa.

The letter aims to inform the President that the current tension surrounding farm murders may only escalate, but that events such as those in Senekal will probably occur again.

AfriForum wants to see an end to –

The removal and destruction of Afrikaner statues and monuments;
Discrimination against Afrikaners and Afrikaans-speaking people in public educational institutions;
Hate speech and incitement by influential politicians to commit violence against Afrikaners;
The stereotyping of Afrikaners as “land thieves”; and
The failure to prioritise farm murders.

“The President must realise that the tragic death of Brendin Horner – and of the thousands more who have been murdered in farm attacks – is a symptom of a deeper problem; of a sense of alienation among Afrikaners, who feel that they are being treated by the South African government as second-rate citizens,” says Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action.

“The question of whether the farm murder crisis is being taken seriously cannot be answered by the words of the President or the Minister of Police, but by the actions that stem from these words. AfriForum therefore requests an urgent meeting with the President to discuss the future of the Afrikaner community in this country, as well as to propose practical steps to ensure a future for our community, despite the fact that we are a minority,” Roets concludes.