AfriForum

AfriForum is a South African non-governmental organisation which mainly focuses on the interests of Afrikaners, a subgroup of the country's white population. AfriForum has been described as a "white nationalist, alt-right, and Afrikaner nationalist group", though this description is rejected by the organisation's leadership, who refer to themselves as a civil rights group.

AfriForum
Formation26 March 2006
TypeNGO
HeadquartersUnion Street, Kloofsig, Centurion, Gauteng
Membership
235,000 (March 2020)
LeaderKallie Kriel
Deputy CEO
Ernst Roets
AffiliationsSolidarity Movement
Websiteafriforum.co.za

Established in 2006 to encourage the re-engagement of Afrikaners in the public sphere, it is closely affiliated with the Solidarity trade union, and has attracted significant controversy because of a statement by its leader, Kallie Kriel, that apartheid was not a crime against humanity; a court ruled that Kriel did not justify apartheid or align himself with the racially discriminatory policies of the past. He unequivocally stated that apartheid was wrong because it was a system that infringed upon the dignity of people.

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