{"id":105521,"date":"2025-12-05T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/?p=105521"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:36:00","slug":"afriforum-exposes-facts-about-human-rights-violations-in-sa-to-members-of-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/afriforum-exposes-facts-about-human-rights-violations-in-sa-to-members-of-the-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum exposes facts about human rights violations in SA to members of the European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ernst-van-Zyl_ENG_5-Dec-2025.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soundbite: Ernst van Zyl (English)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ernst-van-Zyl_AFR_5-Des-2025.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soundbite: Ernst van Zyl (Afrikaans)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Europe\u2019s politicians are now also aware of the violation of human rights, farm murders, the Expropriation Act and the increase in discriminatory racial policies that particularly target South Africa\u2019s minorities after AfriForum made a submission to members of the European Parliament yesterday. This submission as well as this week\u2019s engagement with representatives of the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, and the Flemish Parliament in Brussels form part of AfriForum\u2019s The world must know campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.42.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, and Jaco Kleynhans, Head of International Liaison at Solidarity.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, and Jaco Kleynhans, Head of International Liaison at Solidarity, met with representatives of political parties and presented AfriForum\u2019s \u201cThe world must know\u201d report as well as the Malema Dossier. The reports expose, among other things, critical facts regarding farm murders, the threat to private property rights, attacks on Afrikaans and the heritage of the Afrikaner minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Van Zyl, Afrikaners, AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement have substantial support in Europe. He describes the number of allies that Afrikaners have on the European continent as encouraging.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.43-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105515\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500040132920232;width:271px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.43-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.43-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.43-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-17.41.43.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">During AfriForum&#8217;s submission to the parliament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfrikaners have acquired a very positive international reputation in the past few years, and foreign role players are becoming increasingly aware of the ANC-led government\u2019s abuses of power and human rights violations thanks to campaigns such as those of AfriForum,\u201d Van Zyl concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfriForum\u2019s \u201cThe world must know\u201d report is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-world-must-know-November-2025-1.pdf\">here<\/a> and the Malema Dossier can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Malema-Dossier-Finaal-3-9-2025.pdf\">here<\/a>. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldmustknow.co.za\">www.theworldmustknow.co.za<\/a> for more information about the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s politicians are now also aware of the violation of human rights, farm murders, the Expropriation Act and the increase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":105527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11168,11162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-liaison-media-statements","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":11168,"label":"International liaison Media statements"},{"value":11162,"label":"Media statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Europa-besoek_ENG-1-1024x548.jpg",1024,548,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/author\/ilze-nieuwoudtafriforum-co-za\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":11168,"name":"International liaison Media statements","slug":"international-liaison-media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11168,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":11162,"count":47,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11168,"category_count":47,"category_description":"","cat_name":"International liaison Media statements","category_nicename":"international-liaison-media-statements","category_parent":11162},{"term_id":11162,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11162,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2692,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11162,"category_count":2692,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105531,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105521\/revisions\/105531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}