Report: Farm attacks and farm murders in South Africa

AfriForum issued a warning to the Belfast rural community after an alleged farm murderer, Petros Mamaru (24), also known as Piet, escaped from the Belfast police holding cells the past weekend. Piet, together with two other criminals, escaped from the cells between 17:00 and 17:40 on Saturday, 4 October by cutting a hole in the…

Mariandra Heunis, whose husband was murdered in 2016, published a video on her Facebook page in which she directs a message to President Cyril Ramaphosa and the people of the USA about the crisis of farm murders in South Africa. The video is in reaction to Ramaphosa’s recent statement in the USA that there is…

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…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has declared November 2015 as a national month of protest against farm murders. Various actions will be launched during November that will focus on increasing international pressure on the South African Government to prioritise farm murders. AfriForum requests the public to show their support for this campaign by visiting the…