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 requests reasons for police brutality on members of the tourism industry during peaceful demonstration

By 24/07/202003/11/2020

AfriForum today directed a letter to Lt Gen Yolisa Matakata, Western Cape Police Commissioner, in which the organisation requests reasons for the unnecessary, excessive force used on members of the tourism industry. The organisation is shocked by the brutality used by the SAPS on these members who today participated in a peaceful demonstration in Cape Town. The SAPS sprayed protesters with a water cannon, while teargas grenades and stun grenades were also launched at them.

According to Clinton Lerm, a role-player in this industry in the Western Cape, the participants wore face masks and maintained a social distance of at least 1,5 m and protested peacefully. “The demonstration was part of a countrywide action initiated by role-players in the tourism industry to air their concerns regarding the dramatic effect which the draconic lockdown regulations have had on the industry.”

“AfriForum has in its possession various photos and video footage of the unnecessary, brutal conduct of the SAPS in Cape Town. Cape Town is currently under siege with violent political unrest that is breaking out all over the city during which the lives of innocent people are being threatened and residential properties are ransacked and burnt. Instead of urgently attending to these matters, the SAPS rather chooses to concentrate on innocent and peaceful people that are a soft target by means of using unnecessary and excessive violence on them,” says Thomas van Dalen, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety for the southern region.