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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 demands that NHI public hearings be stopped until details are properly communicated

ByAfriForum 19/09/202320/09/2023

The civil rights organisation AfriForum demands in a legal letter that the Gauteng Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Health and Wellness immediately stop the public hearings on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. This follows after it came to the organisation’s attention that public hearings are taking place without the times or dates thereof being sufficiently advertised.

AfriForum prepared an oral presentation and waited for information to be given about the details of the public hearings. Although no notice was given on the website of the Gauteng Legislature or in the media, two public hearings have already taken place in this province with only a Facebook post notifying the public thereof. There are also only three public hearings scheduled in Gauteng while seven public hearings are taking place in the Western Cape.

According to AfriForum, it is unacceptable that the Gauteng Legislature does not give the residents of this province a proper opportunity to give their input on such a dangerous bill and therefore the organisation demands that the current public hearings be stopped, so that it can be rescheduled and properly advertised.

“It is clear that the authorities are not interested in hearing or considering informed views of the public, but have simply chosen a bill on ideological grounds and are now determined to push it through without proper public participation,” says Louis Boshoff, AfriForum’s spokesperson on the NHI. “This negligence of the ANC government exposes both their blatant bias, as well as their inability to fulfill basic administrative duties.”

Meanwhile, AfriForum encourages members of the public to send written comments against the NHI to the provincial authorities at www.jougesondheid.co.za.