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.

AfriForum instructs legal team to get involved in traditional leadership case

By 20/01/202003/11/2020

The civil rights organisation AfriForum instructed its legal team to get involved in the traditional leadership case of the Barolong Boo Seleka Traditional Council of Thaba ’Nchu near Bloemfontein.

This action follows the decision by Ace Magashule, former Premier of the Free State, to end the rule of the ruling royal house of the Seleka Barolong, which covers a period of 140 years. This decision was based on a report by the Commission on Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims (CTLDC).

“Traditional leadership is a core element of our cultural identity and communities cannot afford that these institutions be undermined and dismantled by political interference. There was no proper consultation with us as the ruling royal family and as we sit here today we do not know what the future holds. It is very sad that a royal family is treated with so much disrespect by government officials,” says Princess Gaboilelwe Moroka (Motshabi), Spokesperson for the royal family.

“Traditional councils are community institutions that play a very important role within communities in South Africa. We cannot allow these institutions to be paralysed by the same kind of patronage that caused so much negative consequences for citizens of our country,” says Barend Uys, Spokesperson for Intercultural Cooperation at AfriForum.

Afrikaners and the Seleka Barolong have a long history of good relationships and cooperation. It started in 1836 when Chief Moroka II came to the aid of Hendrik Potgieter and his laager after they were attacked by a Ndebele force of King Mzilikazi Khumalo.