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.

AfriForum and Solidarity investigate legal options over racist tourism fund

ByAfriForum 28/01/202102/09/2021

AfriForum and Solidarity instructed its legal teams to investigate legal options after Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa and Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, Minister of Tourism, unveiled the Tourism Equity Fund (TEF) as an institution that will provide black-owned tourism businesses with funding. Only businesses with at least 51% black ownership will qualify for loans or grants from this fund.

The fund of R1,2 billion is aimed at providing debt financing, making available grants to obtain shares and facilitating new project development in the tourism industry for black entrepreneurs.

“The COVID-19 crisis exposed government’s true colours and race-driven objectives. The President made it abundantly clear that government wants to use this fund to transform the tourism industry. Government has a responsibility towards all its citizens, however. It is a shame that it now wants to use life buoys to help the people on the riverside, while thousands of others are drowning,” says Monique Taute, Head of Campaigns at AfriForum.
“It is immoral to use money for new businesses and projects while existing businesses in the industry urgently need support after the economic crisis caused among others by government’s strict COVID-19 regulations that the tourism industry is subject to,” Taute says.

“It is only a conscienceless government that would cause harm to an industry by enforcing irrational restrictions and then refusing to compensate certain people in that industry. Government in effect destroyed white-owned tourism businesses by prohibiting almost everyone from conducting business, while only helping some to keep head above water. It is atrocious that government is using the detriment of people in the industry as an opportunity to drive their transformationist agenda. In their frame of mind, it is acceptable to celebrate the ruin of white-owned businesses merely because this leads to accelerated redistribution. We simply cannot allow this,” says Morné Malan, Head of Communication at Solidarity.

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Dwarskersbos: AfriForum requests clarity about investigation on Pedro

By 08/06/202003/11/2020

AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit requested clarity about the number of investigations currently being conducted into the behaviour of Jerome Pedro,…