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.

Victory: Dlamini-Zuma’s forced quarantine regulations scrapped

AfriForum today achieved a victory in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria when Judge J. W. Louw granted the civil rights organisation’s urgent application to declare the regulations (that forbids self-isolation) of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, invalid. These regulations, which AfriForum regards as draconic and irrational, were aimed at putting everyone who tests positive for COVID-19 under compulsory state quarantine.

The Minister agreed that AfriForum’s application should be made an order of court, which determines that the regulations should be read in such a manner that people who are able to effectively self-isolate, be allowed to do so.

AfriForum’s application was based on the fact that these regulations are, according to the organisation, unconstitutional, illegal and irrational. The regulations determine, among other, that everyone who tests positive for COVID-19 – regardless of whether they show any symptoms – will soon be put in the government’s isolation facilities. The Department failed to oppose AfriForum’s application.

These regulations would have given the state the power to force people into quarantine without their permission – even under circumstances where the person may be able to effectively self-isolate. It would consequently have given law enforcers and the state too much power under the guise of combatting the spread of the virus.

“The importance of civil rights organisations and institutions that oppose autocratic and irrational decisions by government has become increasingly clear during this lockdown. When the government abuses its power and try to bully the public by violating people’s rights, AfriForum will stand up against it – to the benefit of everyone in the country,” says Monique Taute, Head of Campaigns at AfriForum.

This is the second court victory that AfriForum has achieved against the government relating quarantine regulations. The same court ruled earlier this month that the horrible Zithabiseni quarantine camp near Groblersdal had to be closed and that the people being quarantined there had to be allowed to go home.

“According to the United Nations South Africa’s lockdown regulations are toxic. It seems that for the government these regulations are no longer about the fight against the coronavirus, but has rather degenerated into an attempt to promote the ANC’s own communist agenda,” Taute concludes.

See previous statement here: http://artikels.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-in-court-over-dlamini-zumas-irrational-quarantine-regulations/