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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NHI: AfriForum to mobilise community to attend public hearings

By 16/10/201903/11/2020

AfriForum will be hosting community meetings in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape within the next two weeks. The purpose of these meetings is to mobilise the community to attend the public hearings for the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill in order to comment on this destructive bill.

AfriForum will give more clarity at the community meetings about the harmful impact the implementation of the NHI Bill would have and will also answer any questions from the community. Representatives of AfriForum will then attend the public hearings to communicate the civil rights organisation’s opposition to NHI.

“We want to encourage the public to oppose NHI in every possible way. This includes submitting comments online, as well as giving AfriForum the mandate to oppose the Bill on the community’s behalf. However, we want to emphasise that it is important that people attend the public hearings to show resistance to NHI. The more opposition to NHI is shown, the less likely it will be promulgated into law,” says Natasha Venter, AfriForum’s spokesperson for NHI.

The public hearings will take place from 25 to 29 October in Mpumalanga and 1 to 4 November in the Northern Cape. Dates for hearings in the other provinces have not yet been provided by government’s Portfolio Committee on Health. Furthermore, the venues and times for the hearings in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape have not yet been released. AfriForum will continuously keep communities informed of the arrangements for the public hearings.

“The fact that the arrangements for the public hearings have not yet been communicated, is telling of the fact that government is not ready to roll out a project of this magnitude and that NHI is doomed to failure,” says Venter.

The public can RSVP here http://artikels.afriforum.co.za/en/divisions/campaigns/national-health-insurance/ to attend AfriForum’s community meetings.