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AfriForum has announced its escalated campaign against farm murders in Centurion today. This follows after the wave of farm attacks which swept the country since the beginning of the year. Since the beginning of 2014, 24 incidents on farms and smallholdings were reported to AfriForum, and three farmers were murdered. The action plan includes an…
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…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the agricultural union TAU SA today announced the statistics for farm attacks and farm murders committed during 2014 at a joint media conference in Centurion. A total of 277 farm attacks of which the details could be verified by the two organisations were carried out during 2014. A total…
The community safety team of the civil rights organisation AfriForum visited a farm attack victim on 6 November 2018 along with a French radio station, Radio France Internationale (RFI), to talk about farm attacks and land grabs in South Africa. David Baché from RFI conducted an interview with Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s National Head of Community…
AfriForum accused the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, of deliberately disregarding the magnitude of the farm murder crisis in South Africa, and being unfeeling towards the victims of this catastrophe. This was in reaction to Mr Mthethwa’s remarks this morning at a breakfast session of The New Age newspaper, where Mthethwa criticized AfriForum’s campaign against…
The New York Times responded to the recent tweet by President Donald Trump on the situation in South Africa with two scathing articles: One by Kimon de Greef and Palko Karasz, who argue that the President’s tweet was based on ‘false claims’; the other by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Norimitsu Onishi, who argue that the…