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 considers action against Magashule’s insinuation that xenophobic violence should be turned against white people

By 05/09/201903/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has condemned remarks by Ace Magashule, secretary-general of the ANC, yesterday at the Tshwane University of Technology in which he, among other things, insinuated that the xenophobic violence should be turned against white people. AfriForum is consulting its legal team and other experts in connection with action against Magashule.

Among other things, Magashule said the following:

“You are South Africans but remember, you are Africans, living in a continent called Africa. Never despise people who have the same skin colour [as] us. There are many others with a whitish colour. You don’t know them. They are there. You see them all the time but you can’t say this one [is] ke le kwerekwere. They have never been attacked because they are also so-called foreigners but because their colour is white.”

“Magashule’s remarks are a racist attack on a vulnerable minority in South Africa. Given his high position as secretary-general of the governing ANC and the lack of comment from President Cyril Ramaphosa, Mashule’s remarks may be interpreted as the ANC’s official stance on the xenophobic violence crisis in the country. Instead of taking steps to try to solve the violence, Magashule’s message is simply that the target of the violence should be changed,” says Monique Taute, AfriForum’s head of campaigns.

AfriForum will continue its campaign to raise international awareness of the suppression of the rights of minorities in South Africa.