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.

Local Government Affairs Media statements | Media statements

AfriForum stops expansion of Rustenburg Local Municipality

ByAfriForum 08/08/202308/08/2023

AfriForum welcomes the decision of the Municipal Demarcation Board not to merge the Rustenburg Local Municipality and the Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality. This follows after AfriForum, and its specialists already submitted comments against the planned change on 28 April this year. If the change were to be successful, it would mean that Koster, Derby, Swartruggens and surrounding areas would form part of the Rustenburg Local Municipality.

“We are glad that the Municipal Demarcation Board has heeded our comments not to merge the two municipalities. Basic service delivery, such as water and sanitation, is already extremely poor in both municipalities and to bring additional towns under the management of the Rustenburg Local Municipality would only worsen the situation,” says Petrus Coetzee, AfriForum’s advisor for Local Government Affairs.

“If the merge was successful, funding to this municipality would also possibly increase and create increased opportunities for corrupt officials to obtain money illegally. The solution to South Africa’s mismanagement of municipalities and the total collapse of service delivery lies in a more federal approach, and not in a stronger centralist system as this change would entail,” Coetzee adds.

“Where there is already a lack of effective maintenance, it is simply unwise to put further pressure on an already dysfunctional municipality,” says Armand Viljoen, AfriForum’s District Coordinator for Marico.

AfriForum encourages communities to get involved at www.afriforum.co.za.