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

ANC-led government should hang its head in shame on Human Rights Day – AfriForum

ByAfriForum 21/03/202521/03/2025

The civil rights organisation AfriForum argues that the ANC-led government should hang its head in shame today over the scale of human rights violations currently taking place in the country.

According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the fact that an average of about 70 people are murdered per day in South Africa is a serious indictment of the government’s inability to protect citizens’ right to life. “To make matters worse, the government contributes to the normalisation of violence by not condemning calls for violence such as ‘kill the Boer’,” Kriel adds.

The high levels of poverty and an unemployment rate of more than 40% are, according to Kriel, also an indication of the government’s inability to create favourable conditions within which the private sector can create jobs and grow the economy. “The government is actually creating an unfavourable climate for investors by disregarding property rights, knowing full well that disrespect for property rights will lead to increased unemployment and poverty,” says Kriel.

Kriel also points out that 80% of South African schools are dysfunctional – something that is one of the most serious human rights violations committed against children in the country. “The majority of children are deprived of quality education by, among other things, the lack of mother-language education. Instead of making mother-language education available to all students, the government chose to violate Afrikaans children’s right to mother-language education through the Bela Act and thereby threaten the cultural survival of Afrikaans communities,” concludes Kriel.