Kallie Kriel – Plaasmoorde

Research on farm attacks compiled by the Solidarity Research Institute (SRI), in conjunction with Prof. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Nantes Kelder, Lorraine Claasen, Dr Johan Burger and Ernst Roets, in November 2012. Inside: A national campaign against farm murders Overview of farm attacks in South Afric and the potential impact thereof on society A proposed model for…

AfriForum and victims whose loved ones were murdered on farms started a petition today for prioritizing farm murders. The petition will be submitted to the United Nations Forum for Minority Issues in November this year. At this event, a report entitled “The Mthethwa Docket” was also introduced. The report details ten instances during the past…

AfriForum today demanded the urgent intervention of Fikile Mbalula, Police Minister, after four farm murders were committed in the past 48 hours. Piet and Tilla van Zyl were murdered near Immerpan in Limpopo on Sunday; Arno Niehaus was murdered near Maanhaarrand in Northwest on Sunday, and; Anton Smuts was murdered and set on fire near…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has formally requested the National Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, to investigate the claims made by a member of a notorious prison gang that Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, came to see them in prison to encourage the committing of farm murders. In a recorded interview between an agent…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum said today at a media conference in Pretoria that the information which this organisation is currently spreading in the international community on expropriation without compensation and farm murders, is based on facts that confirm that there is a serious threat to property rights and human lives in South Africa. This…