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

Constitutional Court dismisses appeal against Ernst Roets about flag tweet

Byafriforum 19/11/201903/11/2020

AfriForum welcomes the Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss the appeal of the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) regarding the flag tweet case. The Court informed AfriForum and the NMF today that it would not be in the interest of justice for the appeal to be heard.

This follows the NMF’s application to the Constitutional Court that the charge of alleged contempt of court by Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Strategy, be taken on appeal. The South Gauteng High Court dismissed the case against Roets earlier this year.

The NMF alleged that Roets committed contempt of court when he tweeted a picture of the 1928 flag (the old South African flag) and asked whether it was hate speech. The NMF also alleged that Roets was in contempt of court for stating that judges are humans and that humans can make mistakes.

“This is a confirmation that the NMF is busy with its own political agenda, which comes down to nothing more than a witch-hunt – a witch-hunt that cannot be justified on the basis of law,” says Roets.