Ian Cameron – Plaasmoorde

AfriForum and Elize Perrin, whose brother, Mauritz Oberholzer, was murdered on his farm in September last year, submitted a volume comprising 10 complaints to the SA Human Rights Commission on Thursday, 30 May 2013. What is AfriForum asking from the SAHRC and what is their feedback? Esmarie Prinsloo interviews Ernst Roets on the issue. Post…

The Pietermaritzburg High Court has sentenced Siboniso Mtolo to life imprisonment for murdering a farmer in Eston, KwaZulu-Natal in September last year. In sentencing, Judge Isaac Madondo said: “Everybody needs to be protected from people like Mtolo, but more especially our farming communities”. The Judge also mentioned that the Court hopes this sentence would serve…

AfriForum was today victorious in the Pretoria High Court after Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen adjudicated that the South African Police Service (SAPS) must present statistics regarding farm murders and attacks between 1990 and 2015, as well as the methodology concerning the gathering of the statistics, to the civil rights organisation. This originated from the…

The stories of about a hundred South Africans whose lives were destroyed by farm attacks, were presented to Nathi Mthethwa, Minister of Police today. The victims demanded that the Minister break his silence on this issue by declaring farm attacks a priority crime. The batch letters was handed over jointly by AfriForum and Belinda van…