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’s Margate branch supplies water to community

By 20/02/202003/11/2020

The AfriForum branch in Margate and the Dutch Reformed Church Margate’s collective borehole this past month provided more than 50 kl of water to the community after the local municipality failed to supply the community with basic access to water and also didn’t make water tanks available.

“The pressure on our local economy and basic living standards is enormous. Individuals and businesses daily come and collect loads of water that are just enough to provide for their basic needs,” says Barry Smit, Chairperson of AfriForum’s Margate branch.

“The municipality is failing in its duty to provide water and is placing the entire Ugu district at economic and health risk. This borehole project is characteristic of what a community can do to find a sustainable solution for their problems themselves,” says Eugene van Aswegen, AfriForum’s District Coordinator for KwaZulu-Natal.

AfriForum’s Margate branch invites the public to join the branch and become part of the local management team to expand similar projects across the Ugu district.

Become involved at your local AfriForum branch today: SMS your name to 45267 (R1).