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 WELCOMES JUDGEMENT REGARDING MUNICIPAL ELECTION

ByAfriForum 03/09/202106/09/2021

The civil rights organisation today welcomed the Constitutional Court’s judgement to not postpone the municipal election outside of the constitutional framework. This comes after the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) brought an application to postpone the municipal election to February 2022. This application was brought after a recommendation was made in a report handed to the IEC by former Deputy Justice Dikgang Moseneke.

According to Morné Mostert, Manager of Local Government Affairs at AfriForum, this is a victory for the protection of South African’s right to vote but will potentially have an impact on other rights within the Constitution. “Municipal service delivery is in a chaotic state and now the opportunity exists to change the composition of municipal councils. The municipal council’s primary function is to see to it that municipal officers are able to realise