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

AfriForum and Sunfield Home secure major victory in Mpumalanga High Court

ByAfriForum 25/01/202425/01/2024

AfriForum is pleased to announce that a significant victory was secured in the Mpumalanga High Court today regarding the subsidy amount paid to Sunfield Home Fortuna, a home for physically and mentally disabled persons outside Balfour. The court heard AfriForum’s case against the Mpumalanga Department of Social Development, in which the civil rights organisation argued that the home’s subsidy should be increased in line with inflation.

The case, which began when Sunfield Home approached AfriForum for help in August 2022, focused on the unfair subsidy amount that had never been increased in the past 15 years. Sunfield faced the cancellation of the subsidy, which could potentially have led to the relocation of all the home’s vulnerable residents.

In 2022, AfriForum successfully obtained an interdict that prevented the cancellation of the contract and ensured the continued payment of the existing subsidy, pending the finalisation of the main matter. Today the court declared that the Mpumalanga Department of Social Development failed to budget sufficiently by failing to make provision for inflationary increases in state-subsidised residents’ subsidies for the past 15 years. The judgment orders, among other things, that the 2024/2025 subsidy must be paid at a monthly amount, as determined by the court, and that the annual increase must be budgeted and paid based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

According to Louis Boshoff, Campaign Officer at AfriForum, the department has the necessary funds to provide sufficient financial support to Sunfield Home Fortuna. “It is shocking to witness the ANC-controlled authorities’ indifference to the well-being of the most vulnerable people in society. It is fights like these that emphasise the importance of organisations that, like AfriForum, stand up for those who are treated unfairly by the government,” says Boshoff.

AfriForum will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that the state’s negligence is rectified. AfriForum will also remain vigilant to hold authorities accountable for fulfilling their responsibilities towards the most vulnerable members of society.