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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Judgement reserved in case against AfriForum and Ernst Roets about flag tweet

Byafriforum 04/09/201903/11/2020

Judgement was reserved in the South Gauteng High Court today, where Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action, appeared in court on a charge of contempt of court.

The charge, laid by the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), follows Roets’s tweet of an image of the old South African flag with the question “Did I just commit hate speech?”

The NMF requested the court to impose a jail sentence on Roets.

“The NMF argues that they are pursuing this case to promote reconciliation. Yet they demand that a civil rights activist be imprisoned because of a tweet. This action is closer to fascism than reconciliation. There are many crises and pain in this country. However, the NMF chooses to ignore these and to rather focus on supressing civil freedom – in the name of Nelson Mandela, apparently,” Roets says.

It is unknown when the verdict will be delivered.

Ernst Roets and members of AfriForum in court.

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10 days left to submit commentary against bill on national health insurance

By 01/10/201903/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum encourages the public to submit commentary against the destructive Bill on National Health Insurance (NHI)….

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AfriForum and several interest groups reject the NHI bill at Krugersdorp public hearing

ByAfriForum 24/10/202324/10/2023

The extensive opposition to National Health Insurance (NHI) became clear today in Krugersdorp where AfriForum and several organisations rejected this…