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.

Expropriation Media statements | Media statements

AfriForum attends public hearing on expropriation without compensation

ByAfriForum 02/11/202001/09/2021

Representatives of the civil rights organisation AfriForum attended the public hearing on amendments to Section 25 of the Constitution in Saldanha on 3 October. Deon de Jager, AfriForum’s Head of Community Structures for the South Region, spoke at the hearing. AfriForum emphasised that the ANC’s pursuit of expropriation without compensation is nothing but a political game.

Numerous examples were cited of corruption that hamper land reform efforts, especially the fact that only 6,3% of land bought by the state have since been transferred to private ownership. Moreover, more than 90% of people who submitted land claims indicated that they were not interested in owning agricultural land and would rather receive money as compensation. Government itself also admitted that more than 90% of farms which were awarded to black South Africans have failed and quickly turned into subsistence farming or squatters’ settlements.

AfriForum is of the opinion that the “hunger for land” is mostly a myth, especially regarding the demand for rural land to become farmers, because around 82% of land claims are for suburban rather than rural land.

“Government’s power games regarding land cannot be accepted without further ado, as it is to the detriment of everyone in the country. Property rights are instrumental in creating a prosperous society and AfriForum will therefore continue to fight this destructive policy,” De Jager concludes.