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.

Campaigns and petitions

Netflix, is my subscription too white?

ByAfriForum 28/10/202128/10/2021

The online streaming entertainment service Netflix recently launched a scholarship for 2022 post-graduates who are pursuing qualifications in the film or TV genre. However, one of the main qualifying criteria is that the applicant must be black, as defined by the B-BBEE Code of Conduct. Therefore, aspiring white students who want to apply for this scholarship will be rejected outright based solely on the colour of their skin and regardless of their financial background. To demonstrate how cruelly discriminatory this scholarship is, its criteria favour the black child of a politician or billionaire over the white child of an unemployed household.

This type of blatant, shameless discrimination has no place in society and AfriForum therefore wants you to make your voice heard.

To: Reed Hastings, CEO and Co-founder of Netflix
Dear Mr Hastings
I would like to voice my disgruntlement with Netflix’s discriminatory postgraduate scholarship programme, of which one of the main criteria for qualifying is that the applicant must be black. This is tantamount to blatant racial discrimination and is an insult to the South African constitutional value of non-racialism.
Regards