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24 October 2012 In the light of Mthethwa’s continued lack of concern with farm murders, AfriForum informed the Minister’s office that the organisation proposed to hold a demonstration in front of the Minister’s office together with the victims of the farm attacks. During a phone conversation on 23 October 2012 the Minister’s spokesperson, Zweli Mnisi,…

AfriForum today presented 15 embassies with a memorandum in which the civil rights organisation requests that these countries must exert pressure on the South African government to protect the rights of minorities as well as to address the farm murder crisis. The memorandum specifically emphasises the conduct of representatives of the South African government at…

AfriForum will announce an action plan next week, intensifying its campaign for prioritising farm murders. The organisation is worried that the escalation in farm murders and attacks in 2013 will continue and worsen in 2014. During the past four days at least five farm attacks had taken place. In the latest incident, a farmer and…

AfriForum today attended the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland, to address the Forum on the state of minority rights in South Africa. It is the fifth time that AfriForum is attending the annual session of this forum. According to Alana Bailey, Deputy CEO of AfriForum…

AfriForum will release a report on Thursday in which the brutality of farm murders is depicted. The International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture has also given AfriForum the undertaking that they will study the report. The report will be introduced on 26 June – the day which has been proclaimed by the United Nations…