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

Success: E-toll reaches end of the road

ByAfriForum 26/10/202226/10/2022

The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s 10-year struggle to get rid of e-tolls has reached a satisfying end. This follows after it was announced that the state will take over the South African National Roads Agency’s (SANRAL) e-toll debt of R23.7 billion. Although e-toll has not been officially scrapped, the fact that the state is taking over e-toll’s debts for all practical purposes means the end of this system.

AfriForum donated R100 000 to a court case to have e-toll declared illegal, which led to an initial interdict against the implementation of this system. After the Constitutional Court lifted the interdict, AfriForum encouraged its members not to register for e-toll. Nor has AfriForum registered its own vehicles for e-toll. It now appears that the continued protest from the public has put enough pressure on the system to put an end to e-toll.

“AfriForum welcomes the fact that e-toll has reached the end of the road. We thank all members of the public and organisations who helped in the fight against it. This once again shows the strength of civil society,” says Reiner Duvenage, Campaign Officer for strategy and content at AfriForum.