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

Budget 2022: Hands off the private sector

ByAfriForum 23/02/202224/02/2022

The civil rights organisation AfriForum condemns government’s intention to increase its role in the South African economy as announced by the minister of finance, Enoch Godongwana, in the 2022 National Budget Speech delivered earlier today.

To truly achieve economic growth, government needs to relieve excessive taxes on the private sector and cut back on its own internal spending on salary increases and bonuses. Cause for further concern is the expansion of South Africa’s state debt which now amounts to R69 291 per citizen. Servicing our debt has become the countries single biggest expense.

The budget speech also confirmed the state’s intention of keeping failing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) afloat on the backs of already over-burdened taxpayers.

“During the speech Godongwana largely blamed South Africa’s economic woes on COVID-19. This completely disregards the fact that South Africa’s economy was in tatters long before the outbreak of the virus and it was government’s draconian lockdowns that caused the real damage. To bring about true economic growth, government must quit interfering in the market and relieve excessive taxes on the private sector. Therefore, the further expansion of the state’s role and influence in the economy is another step in the wrong direction,” says Reiner Duvenage, Campaign officer for strategy and content at AfriForum.