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.

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AfriForum lays charges against EFF Secretary General

By 07/11/201903/11/2020

AfriForum laid criminal charges of incitement to violence against Godrich Gardee, Secretary General of the EFF, at the Lyttelton police station in Pretoria today. The organisation filed charges under Section 18 of the Riotous Assemblies Act, 17 of 1956.

This follows Gardee’s recent tweet stating that the Loftus Versfeld stadium where Angus Buchan has organised an event should be “booby-trapped” with limpet mines prior to the event. Buchan specifically called for Afrikaners to attend this event.

“The disturbing tweet by the Secretary General of the EFF seems to indicate that the party believes it can incite violence against South African citizens without having to face any consequences. Violent threats of this nature have no place in any society, especially not from the Secretary General of the third-largest political party in South Africa,” says Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer at AfriForum.

AfriForum also lodged a complaint of hate speech with the South African Human Rights Commission against Gardee.

According to Van Zyl, AfriForum views Gardee’s threatening tweet as very dangerous and malicious. “The civil rights organisation therefore took steps to ensure justice through proper legal channels. We urge the authorities to take proper action against Gardee to ensure accountability and also to serve as a deterrent for those who want to make violent threats of this nature in the future,” Van Zyl concludes.