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.

Intercultural cooperation | Media statements

AFRIFORUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF KING GOODWILL ZWELITHINI KABHEKUZULU

ByAfriForum 12/03/202101/10/2021

The civil rights organisation AfriForum learned with great sadness of the passing of His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu. AfriForum expresses our deepest sympathy with the Zulu royal family, as well as the Zulu nation. We hold the royal family in our prayers during this time of mourning.

Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, and the organisation will especially remember King Zwelithini as a bridge builder that established good relationships between cultural communities. An example of this, according to Kriel, is the way in which King Zwelithini extended a hand of friendship to AfriForum and Afrikaners in general. He loved mentioning the good relationship between his great-grandfather King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo and the Afrikaners and that he wanted to renew this good relationship. “It was a privilege for AfriForum to come into close contact with King Zwelithini the last few years and it was an honour to know a man and leader of his stature. His death is a great loss to the building of cultural relationships between Afrikaners and Zulus. We are going to miss King Zwelithini.”

“King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was a true leader and father to the Zulu nation. He was an exemplar of integrity and a devoted Christian. He acted in the interest of his cultural community and communities in general without hesitation, his actions spoke of mutual recognition and respect. He was a staunch protector of cultural identity, customs and tradition. The story of King Zwelithini will be told to the future generations in Africa. He honoured the legacy of his ancestors, we honour his memory,” says Barend Uys, Head of Intercultural Cooperation at AfriForum.