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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Heunis farm attack: Suspect found guilty

Byafriforum 25/03/202003/11/2020

AfriForum welcomes the decision by the Northern Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on 24 March 2020 to find Justice Sethlangu guilty of the murder of Johan Heunis, murdered husband of Mariandra Heunis. AfriForum’s Trauma Support Unit has been supporting Mariandra and her family since 2017.

Sethlangu shot Johan continuously in the head – in front of his pregnant wife and four-year-old daughter – on 1 October 2016 on the Heunis’s smallholding in the Kameeldrift area. Judge William Letsoalo also found Sethlangu guilty on three charges of housebreaking with the intent to rob, as well as on a charge of the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Johan Kloppers, a trauma support officer at AfriForum se Trauma Support Unit, has been providing emotional support as well as trauma counselling to Mariandra and her family since 2017. A representative of AfriForum accompanied her to court every day, while AfriForum supported her in preparing for court because she was subpoenaed to testify.

According to Kloppers, AfriForum and the Heunis family welcomes the fact that justice prevailed in the end.

“It has been a long road up to this point and AfriForum’s Trauma Support Unit will continue to provide the Heunis family with emotional support. Although the trauma of the farm attack left a permanent car on the Heunis family, it brings some comfort to know that at least one of the farm attackers must now pay for his actions. AfriForum becomes involved in cases like this one to ensure that justice prevails and to support victims of these horrible crimes,” Klopper concludes.