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The civil rights organisation AfriForum today published the latest The world must know report during a media conference at its headquarters in Centurion. This report extensively documents how Afrikaners and other minorities are being targeted, scapegoated, excluded, murdered and discriminated against in South Africa, with every claim accompanied by a source. AfriForum released similar reports in 2020 and 2022.

AfriForum’s report demonstrates how the human rights situation in South Africa, especially regarding minority rights, has continued to deteriorate in 2025. It highlights how the government’s racially discriminatory policies are increasing in number and severity; how private property rights are increasingly under attack; how incitement of violence and hatred against minority groups from powerful politicians is escalating; how critics of the government are subject to intimidation and investigation; and how minority heritage and education are being targeted, attacked and marginalised. 

AfriForum will also be delivering the report to the embassies of all the G20 countries, to inform them how minority rights are being violated in the country they are visiting for the 2025 G20 summit. AfriForum will subsequently present the report’s findings later this month at the United Nations’ annual Forum on Minority Issues and submit it to various influential individuals, institutions and organisations across the European Union. The Malema Dossier, published in September this year, will also be disseminated alongside The world must know report.

According to Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, this report is a direct counter to the continued denialism, censorship and suppression tactics of the ANC-led South African government and its mouthpieces in 2025. “The truth is a funny thing, the more you try to suppress it, the more it leaks out,” continues Van Zyl.

“The difference between AfriForum and the ANC-led South African government is that while the government lays awake at night thinking of ways to cover up the truth, AfriForum lays awake at night thinking of more effective ways to help the truth get out. We need the public to help us by sharing the report far and wide,” concludes Van Zyl.

Issued by AfriForum