AfriForum might be a pretty controversial group, but there are many South Africans who don’t know anything about them or what they represent. Have you seen headlines about the organization, but need clarity on who they actually ARE?the AfriForum website
, they are a civil rights organization who represents ‘Afrikaners, Afrikaans-speaking people, and other minority groups in South Africa and protects their rights.’Some of the cases that have made AfriForum famous includes taking on the Economic Freedom Fighters about singing of ‘kill the boer’.AfriForum says that they are an Afrikaans and Afrikaner-speaking, as well as minority rights organisation for South Africans.
Some of what the organisation have done includes protesting against name changes in 2010. They also have a history protesting against the name change of theIsaac Mutant in 2014. They’ve also taken on government about the display of the old SA flag, andSome of their initiatives include AfriForum Jeug , and their television channel AfriForumTV that aims to bring axed show Vetkoek Paleis back to the air for a second run.
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