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 Ernst Roets court case about flag tweet postponed

Byafriforum 03/09/201903/11/2020

Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action, was set to appear in the South Gauteng High Court today on a charge of contempt of court, brought against him by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The case was postponed until tomorrow (4 September), after the judge ruled that the urgent court roll was full.

The charge follows Roets’s tweet of an image of the old South African flag and the question “Did I just commit hate speech?”

The charge relates to the recent ruling by Judge Phineas Mojapelo that the private or public gratuitous display of the old South African flag amounted to hate speech.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation filed charges against both Roets individually and AfriForum. While AfriForum and Roets are on record saying that they do not display the flag, they will oppose the charges, among other on the basis that Roets’s tweet was within the ambit of the judgment. They will also plead for civil liberties and take a stand against censorship and banning.