AfriForum: Gesprek oor plaasmoorde met Steve Hofmeyr en Rian van der Walt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0BZFeKYGQ
AfriForum will launch a petition this Wednesday for prioritizing farm murders. The petition will be submitted in November to the United Nations’ Forum for Minority Issues in Switzerland. Various victims who have lost loved ones in farm attacks during the past few years will be present at the launch. Their names will top the petition…
AfriForum’s Deputy CEO, Ernst Roets, today launched a scathing attack on South Africa’s inputs at the United Nation’s (UN’s) Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland. The South African government declared that those who ask that farm murders be prioritised, do so because they have racist agendas and because they are Apartheid sympathisers. Roets said…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s community safety team this past week spent a day with the Engelbrecht family near Fochville after two members of this family – Fanie (78) and Colleen (74) – were brutally murdered during a farm attack on 13 May. A German public TV broadcaster – Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) – accompanied…
AfriForum sent an urgent request to the National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Zach Modise, regarding an internal investigation at the Barkley-East Prison in the Eastern Cape after four prisoners escaped yesterday, including two murder suspects arrested for the murder of farmer Sarel Pretorius in January 2014. Their absence was only noticed at a check count…
AfriForum Safety Structures in Kathu and Kuruman in the Northern Cape and Vryburg in North West have been searching for three suspected farm attackers with the South African Police Service (SAPS) since last night, after a 64 year old farmer, Christo Kruger was murdered on his farm, Byron. Kruger’s wife, Vera was left unharmed and…
AfriForum today attended the second court appearance of the accused in the murder of an elderly couple from Barkly-East. Thulani Mkhentane (22), a Lesotho national, has withdrawn his bail application and will remain in custody until his next court appearance on 28 November. “The investigation continues. We would like to compliment the Barkly-East police for…