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 ready for class action lawsuit to stop NHI

ByAfriForum 15/05/202415/05/2024

AfriForum is preparing for a class action lawsuit against the government, President Cyril Ramaphosa, the parliament and the Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla, for the damage that South Africans will suffer under the unaffordable National Health Insurance (NHI) policy. AfriForum confirmed this in a legal letter that was handed over at the Union Building.

AfriForum will also issue a summons together with an interim application for the setting aside of the implementation of the law, pending the completion of the class action lawsuit.

According to Louis Boshoff, Campaign Officer at AfriForum, the aim of the court case is to stop NHI and also force those responsible for this destructive policy to bear the consequences of their ill-considered actions.

Boshoff also expressed his disappointment that Ramaphosa did not speak to the media himself. “If the head of government is willing to ratify a new law, he is supposed to be well informed enough to defend his decision in public. Yet Ramaphosa is not up to it.”