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.

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AfriForum disputes shortlist for Chief JusticE CANDIDATES WHO ARE shrouded in controversy

ByAfriForum 07/10/202107/10/2021

The civil rights organisation AfriForum is of the opinion that the shortlist of candidates for the post of Chief Justice indicates that the government is not serious about protecting the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.

The list of candidates includes, among others, the current Judge President of the Western Cape John Hlophe. Hlophe has been charged with several offences by fellow judges and has been convicted of gross misconduct by the Judicial Service Committee. Another candidate, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, is still under parliamentary inquiry into her suitability as Public Protector. The investigation was launched after numerous findings that Mkhwebane made in her reports as Public Protector, which were later set aside by the courts. AfriForum also requested in 2020 that Mkhwebane resign after she was investigated for perjury.

According to recent media reports two experienced legal experts, Judge David Unterhalter and Adv. Alan Dodson, have apparently been removed from the shortlist because they are white.

“It paints an extremely worrying picture considering that it came to light before the Zondo Commission that the ANC’s cadre deployment commission also discussed the appointment of judges. It therefore begs the question: How do judges with such a dubious past make it to this shortlist? The ANC’s cadre deployment has already paralysed the country by appointing incompetent but loyal ANC members to positions of authority. It cannot be allowed that the legal system also becomes a victim of this corrupt agenda,” says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and content at AfriForum.