Johannesburg – AfriForum and the Nama-Afrikaner Household Clan in South Africa have signed a historic recognition and cooperation treaty in Pretoria.
Amongst different issues, they undertook to advertise the realisation of cultural rights and full recognition, in addition to the strengthening of cultural id, heritage, neighborhood self-sufficiency and neighborhood improvement.
The settlement was signed yesterday, Monday, 20 July 2026.
“The signing of this recognition and cooperation treaty is a vital milestone within the journey of our respective cultural communities,” mentioned Gaob (Captain) Karl Afrikaner, Chairperson of the Conventional Home of the Afrikaner Household Clan SA.
“Our communities face important and pressing challenges, and it’s due to this fact important for cultural communities to hitch fingers in order that sensible options could be discovered and carried out.
“I look ahead to the optimistic impression that our cooperation can have on extraordinary individuals at grassroots stage.”
For his half, Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, mentioned: “It’s a privilege for AfriForum to enter into this historic treaty with Gaob Afrikaner and the Nama-Afrikaner Household Clan SA.
“We perceive that, in the end, it’s sensible motion that makes a distinction in individuals’s lives and ensures a free, secure and affluent future for our communities.
“Happily, those that try to isolate AfriForum via uninformed and malicious statements won’t stand in our method as we forge ties with different cultural communities and construct a future collectively.”
The aim of this settlement is to ascertain and preserve an enduring relationship with a purpose to guarantee enduring peace and friendship between the Nama-Afrikaner Household Clan SA and Afrikaners.
The settlement can also be geared toward selling the event of those cultural communities in varied methods, together with via:
- selling neighborhood self-sufficiency and self-management;
- preserving and defending cultural id and heritage;
- defending property rights;
- selling neighborhood security;
- selling mom language schooling;
- cooperation on meals safety and agricultural improvement; and
- selling intercultural reconciliation and dialogue.
The next ideas type the muse of the settlement:
- mutual recognition and respect;
- peaceable coexistence;
- acceptance of one another’s id, permanence and existence as autonomous cultural communities in Southern Africa;
- the prerogative of cultural communities to handle their very own pursuits and set up and preserve their very own establishments with out interference from the state or every other entity;
- respect for the variety of governing establishments, customs and traditions, together with these referring to land use and possession; and
- freedom of faith and cultural practices.
Barend Uys, Head of Intercultural Relations and Cooperation at AfriForum, mentioned the civil rights organisation was working laborious to construct bridges between Afrikaners and different cultural communities.
Uys acknowledged that good relations and cooperation between totally different cultural communities have been indispensable to making sure peaceable and affluent coexistence within the nation.
“AfriForum and Afrikaners select, as Van Wyk Louw wrote, to proceed current in justice,” Uys mentioned.
“It’s an honour for us to be an ally of the Nama-Afrikaner Household Clan SA on this endeavour to create the house the place future generations can stay fulfilling and peaceable lives alongside each other, right here on the southern tip of our beloved Africa.”
Gaob Afrikaner acknowledged: “I’m stuffed with hope as a result of we additionally signed a Nama model of the treaty.
“The preservation and promotion of Nama, notably amongst our kids, is essential to us, and the signing of the settlement written in Nama is a sensible demonstration of real mutual recognition and respect.”
AfriForum has beforehand signed related agreements with the Jamangile KaMabandla royal household within the Jap Cape; the Batlharo Boo Tokwana Ba Ga Masibi in North West; the Barolong Boo Seleka and Batlokoa Ba Mota within the Free State; the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela in North West and Mochudi, Botswana; the Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware within the Northern Cape; the Ndebele organisation Vulamehlo Kusile Organisation (VUKO); and the Royal Leaders of South Africa (ROLESA).
AfriForum acknowledged that these agreements have already resulted in varied grassroots tasks, together with tasks specializing in agricultural improvement, heritage, cultural id, and indigenous languages.
