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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Isidingo misused to incite anti-white racism

Byafriforum 02/05/201702/11/2020

AfriForum expressed its concern over the public reaction that followed after a recent episode of Isidingo aired on SABC 3, in which a racist image was sketched of white people. Various commentators described the particular Isidingo episode as a reflection of the reality and spread the episode in an attempt to incite anti-white racism. Isidingo is also praised on social media for the political standpoint this programme takes against white people.

According to Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, the story on Isidingo does not reflect the reality among white people, Afrikaners or farmers. In this particular episode, an innocent black man is assaulted by two white men and buried alive after they mocked him with baboon sounds.

“We acknowledge the right of the producers of Isidingo to artistic freedom and cannot dictate what must be aired in the programme. We are however concerned over the public reaction that followed after this episode from within certain ranks,” says Roets. The producers of Isidingo ought to take a strong public standpoint against all forms of racism.

Roets says that AfriForum will continue to consistently reject all forms of racism.