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 in court on 15 March regarding donation to Cuba

ByAfriForum 07/03/202207/03/2022

The civil rights organisation AfriForum will on 15 March 2022 be in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to obtain an urgent court order that will prevent government to make a planned R50 million donation to Cuba. AfriForum will also later submit a review application to the court in which the organisation requests that the decision to donate the money to Cuba be reversed.

AfriForum’s legal argument that the donation should not be made, are based on the following points.

Firstly the donation is in conflict with the African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund (ARF), the basis on which the donation is made. This fund stipulates that there has to be a parliamentary overview of such a donation, which was not the case. The donation is also in breach of the Public Financial Management Act because it was not properly approved by National Treasury or the Minister of Finance. It is also an utter disgrace that Government borrows money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international organisations, but wants to donate that money (and some of the country’s other money) to Cuba. This whilst the country is in a miserable economic position. Therefore, it is simply unconstitutional to donate money to Cuba in the midst of a serious economic crisis that the public is suffering from.

“Government’s planned donation is completely illegal because it violates a number of laws. It is good to see that government receives resistance from civil society, political parties and individuals regarding this ridiculous intention. AfriForum therefore hopes to finally end this irrational and illegal donation in court,” says Reiner Duvenage, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.