Report on police negligence

The sentences of two convicted farm attackers, who brutally attacked Pieter and Henriëtta Botes on their Mpumalanga farm, Remhoogte in 2011, were reduced with 15 years. This, after a judge of the North Gauteng High Court ruled that the magistrate who sentenced them to 35 consecutive years’ imprisonment “overemphasized the gravity of the crime”. “The…

Visitors at the Farmers Market in Pretoria on Saturday were touched by a portrayal of an empty food stand as part of an awareness campaign for the upcoming movie about farm murders in the country, Treurgrond, which starts in May 2015. Bea Pretorius, Head of Marketing at AfriForum, said that it was obvious from the…

AfriForum today sent a PAIA application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Act No. 2 of 2000) to the office of Supra Mahumapelo, Premier of the North West, over the erection of a statue of Pres. Jacob Zuma in Groot Marico. In this application the civil rights organisation requests the following…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has issued a report today in which the relationship among politics, hate speech and an increase in farm murders is set out. The report deals with five prominent cases where hatred and violence was fuelled by political leaders against white farmers. It was found that farm murders increased by an…

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum today announced the first issue of this organisation’s farm safety assessment as resource for people in rural areas to secure their properties. This follows after approximately 110 farm attacks and murders in the country since the start of 2018. “This practical assessment provides an instrument to the rural community to…

AfriForum has been leading a campaign that the Department of Police and SAPS must release annual statistics regarding farm attacks for a while. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, said that it is not as difficult to release figures on farm attacks as the Department of Police and the South African Police Service (SAPS) imply….