The world must know

AfriForum launched a comprehensive campaign for the protection of civil rights in South Africa. The organisation visited the USA in March 2020 and plans to visit several other countries on almost all continents as part of this campaign. Issues on which the campaign will specifically focus include expropriation without compensation, as well as farm murders, hate speech and the South African government’s veneration of human rights violators.

AfriForum representatives will travel to Geneva, Switzerland to take part in the fifteenth session of the United Nations’ Forum on Minority Issues that takes place between 1 and 2 December. Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Chief Executive for International Liaison, will do a presentation, in person, on the continued hate speech and discrimination against minorities in South Africa. AfriForum representatives will also submit a report at the offices of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

This report seeks to document all the new discriminatory legislation, incidents and policies in South Africa and those that have been implemented or proposed, or have occurred since 2020. The report also documents some of the most prominent incidents of hate speech and incitement of violence against minorities by high-profile figures in that same timeframe. AfriForum wrote this report to provide CERD members with a more comprehensive description of the state of human rights in South Africa, particularly how minority communities are targeted through hate speech, incitement to violence and discriminatory legislation.

The campaign rests on three pillars:

  • Creating awareness of the situation in South Africa;
  • Raising support among opinion formers, governments and other decision makers;
  • Mobilising the South African diaspora and foreigners with interests in South Africa to swing into meaningful action.

Episode 1

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South Africa’s racially discriminatory policies | The World Must Know Report (2022)
In this episode of the #TheWorldMustKnow (2020 – 2022) series, based on AfriForum’s new comprehensive report on the continued persecution of minority communities in South Africa between 2020 and 2022, I discuss the “Racially discriminatory laws in times of Covid and beyond” section of the report.

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Expropriation Without Compensation: Where do things stand? | The World Must Know Report (2022)
In this episode of the #TheWorldMustKnow (2020 – 2022) series, based on AfriForum’s new comprehensive report on the continued persecution of minority communities in South Africa between 2020 and 2022, I discuss the “Expropriation without compensation: Amendment of the Constitution and introduction of the 2020 Expropriation Bill” section of the report.

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Senekal and the “Kill the Boer” trial of Julius Malema / EFF | The World Must Know Report (2022)
In this episode of the #TheWorldMustKnow (2020 – 2022) series, based on AfriForum’s new comprehensive report on the continued persecution of minority communities in South Africa between 2020 and 2022, I discuss the “Senekal and the “Kill the Boer” trial of Julius Malema / EFF” section of the report.

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Attacks against minority heritage in South Africa | The World Must Know Report (2022)
In this episode of the #TheWorldMustKnow (2020 – 2022) series, based on AfriForum’s new comprehensive report on the continued persecution of minority communities in South Africa between 2020 and 2022, I discuss the “Targeting minority heritage” section of the report.

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Attacks against the Afrikaans language & its speakers | The World Must Know Report (2022)
In this episode of the #TheWorldMustKnow (2020 – 2022) series, based on AfriForum’s new comprehensive report on the continued persecution of minority communities in South Africa between 2020 and 2022, I discuss the “Continued decline of Afrikaans language rights and education” section of the report.