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 criticizes SA Tourism and Department of Tourism over planned sponsorship of English football club

ByAfriForum 02/02/202302/02/2023

The civil rights organisation AfriForum is demanding answers from the Department of Tourism, regarding the Department’s plans to grant a sponsorship of £42.5 million to the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. This sponsorship between SA Tourism and the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club will apparently last for 36 months. AfriForum believes that these funds should instead be used on home soil for the development of South African sports talent.

In a legal letter today, the organisation demanded that clarity be given about, among other things, where the £42.5 million – or approximately R 910 997 814.75 – will come from. As well as whether the current socio-economic challenges faced by South African citizens were ever considered when this decision was made.

AfriForum further demanded that no funds be allocated to the football club until South African citizens have been given a valid explanation for the sponsorship.

“AfriForum strongly condemns the possible involvement of the Department of Tourism in an international football team, especially since not enough time, energy and funds are spent to develop sports on home soil. These funds can especially be used to help talented young people in difficult circumstances to develop their skills in order to escape their circumstances,” says Ronald Peters, manager of Sport and Youth at AfriForum.

Visit AfriForum Sport’s website for more information.