18 November 2013
AfriForum will host a blitz conference in Centurion on Monday where video footage of a farm attack will be released to the media. The material will be included in a submission on farm murders which will be presented by AfriForum to the United Nations Forum for Minority Issues in Geneva in Switzerland on 26 and 27 November. The video footage does not contain violence, but it may upset sensitive viewers.
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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…
20 February 2012 began as an ordinary day in the lives of David and Bernadette Hall. The Halls were milking cows on their farm, Buffelshoek, near Fochville. There they were overpowered by five attackers. Bernadette was tied up and assaulted with a blunt object. David was less fortunate. After a fight with the robbers, who…
AfriForum today sent a PAIA application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Act No. 2 of 2000) to the office of Supra Mahumapelo, Premier of the North West, over the erection of a statue of Pres. Jacob Zuma in Groot Marico. In this application the civil rights organisation requests the following…
Farm murders have increased for the fifth consecutive year. 61 farm murders were verified in 2014, and thus far in 2015, 62 farm murders have been recorded. In 2014, 279 farm attacks were reported. In 2015 however, 270 farm attacks have been reported and in 56 of these attacks 62 farmers and farm workers were…
AfriForum said today that the civil rights organisation was grateful for the verdict in the farm murder case of André van der Merwe, a farmer from Ottosdal who was murdered in 2011, but added that a reactive approach to the farm murder crisis will not stop this phenomenon. The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, was…