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.

Farm murders Media statements | Media statements

AFRIFORUM BRINGS THE EFFECT OF FARM MURDERS ON MINORS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE UN

ByAfriForum 05/02/202102/09/2021

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today sent a comprehensive letter to the UN in which the devastating effect that farm murders have on minors in South Africa is discussed.

This follows after AfriForum on 4 February 2021 attended an online information session on childhood following atrocities. The session was hosted by the Outreach Programme on the Holocaust and the Civil Society Unit of the United Nations Department of Global Communications.

“The government’s indifferent attitude towards farm attacks and farm murders has far-reaching consequences for all those who are living on farms. All survivors of these attacks – parents, children, extended family and workers – may have to live with the emotional scars left by these attacks for many years,” said Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum’s Manager of Campaigns.

The shortcomings of the government and the psychological effect of the trauma on minors in particular are emphasised in this letter. Dissociation, depression, learning and concentration problems and self-harm are only some of the challenges experienced by minors following such an attack and trauma.

AfriForum founded the Wilmien Potgieter Fund in 2019 to support victims of farm attacks.

If you want to get involved, send an email to fonds@afriforum.co.za.