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

SONA 2026: Ramaphosa fails farmers and consumers with centralised FMD vaccination plan

ByAfriForum 12/02/202612/02/2026

According to AfriForum, President Cyril Ramaphosa utterly failed farmers and meat consumers tonight by continuing to insist on a centralised procurement of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines. This reaction follows Ramaphosa’s announcement during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) earlier this evening that the procurement of vaccinations will be facilitated centrally by government.

AfriForum further warns that, despite Ramaphosa’s announcement that FMD has now been declared a national crisis, the intervention will be unsuccessful if carried out in a centralised manner.

“The country now needs decentralisation and privatisation, but the President is still persisting with a failed policy of centralisation – a policy that sits behind the problems in almost every area of society,” explains Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum Spokesperson.

According to AfriForum, this approach confirms that the government is not committed to solutions but rather continued centralisation at the expense of the country and its people. “With the central purchases of vaccines, the government is blindly continuing on its path of destruction and is thereby complicit in the extensive crisis that is raging due to foot-and-mouth disease and will now sow even further devastation,” concludes Broodryk.