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.

Media statements

AfriForum will oppose power-hungry Mkhize’s regulations

ByAfriForum 16/10/202003/11/2020

AfriForum will fight the proposed regulations by Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health, to supervise and control notifiable diseases in future. These proposed regulations will give far-reaching powers to the Minister when the national state of disaster is eventually lifted.

If Cabinet approves it, the amended regulations will give Mkhize the power to apply the same strict regulations as those applied by government in terms of the Disaster Management Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to any disease that may be perceived as a major risk to the public.

Some of these powers include that Mkhize may prohibit travelling between provinces or districts, as well as public meetings. He may also introduce a curfew, close educational institutions and place people under compulsory quarantine by simply publishing a notice in the Government Gazette.

“The disastrous manner in which government handled the COVID-19 pandemic provides ample reason why the state should not have such power over citizens. It is even worse when so much power is vested in one minister. AfriForum will oppose the regulations if approved by Cabinet. We cannot afford any future irrational lockdown regulations by government,” says Natasha Venter, Manager of Campaigns at AfriForum.