Let your voice be heard …
AfriForum will directly contribute to giving you and your community a voice in a society where minorities are increasingly being ignored. AfriForum offers a Forum for the constructive activation of minorities to participate in public debate and action, in order to ensure a future for us in Africa.
… and benefit!
Your AfriForum membership not only benefits your community, but also your wallet – every time you use your Afriforum membership card at any one of the hundreds of Infinity partners countrywide. The more you spend, the greater the rewards – in cash!
The membership fee is a minimum of R30-00 per month.
Why is there a need for AfriForum?
The problem: Apathetic withdrawal
Civil societies in general, and minorities in particular, have fallen into a spiral of withdrawal that holds negative consequences for the minorities themselves, for democratic principles and for the country as a whole.
Active participation
AfriForum, an independant initiative of the trade union Solidarity, is a non-profit institution which endeavours to eradicate this cycle of withdrawal. The process motivates minorities to participate constructively in public life and debate by means of:
- Campaigns for the protection and consolidation of civil rights, as contained in the South African Constitution and international conventions. The campaigns will concentrate on the protection of civil and other rights across a wide spectrum. Specific problem areas, e.g. the government’s growing obsession with race, political interference in sport, race-based welfare subsidies, crime and the ill-considered changing of some place names will receive attention.
- Establishing functional forums in various spheres of life, in response to various needs and issues that may crop up in the community. Forums focusing on the following issues have either already been established or are being planned: civil rights, social affairs, future vision, migration (including Solidarity’s Come Home Campaign), taxpayers, crime, sport, the aged, the youth, women, etc.
- Creating a future vision for minority communities, built on self-respect and independence, as a platform to enable minority communities to take their rightful place in our country and take part in the mainstream national debate.
- Promoting co-operation between civil institutions. Campaigns and forums with specific objectives offer existing civil institutions and persons with divergent points of view an opportunity to work together on matters of joint concern without abandoning the principles on which they may differ.
- Liaising with the rest of the world by means of the Come Home Campaign (that assists skilled expatriates to return home), newsletters to South Africans abroad and contact with foreign institutions to promote civil rights, where needed.
- Liaising with the authorities by means of AfriForum’s parliamentary liaison office, to give a voice to minority communities.
