AfriForum skop stof op ter bewusmaking van plaasmoorde

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 asked for an appointment with the Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Adv. Lawrence Mushwana, to obtain the Commission’s support for AfriForum’s campaign against farm murders. In the letter addressed to Mushwana, Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, explained that the organisation is currently assisting a number of victims of…

AfriForum says it is clear – from the crime statistics – that SAPS Specialist Units contributed sizably to the reduction and combatting of priority crimes in the past financial year. Reg Crewe, AfriForum Head of Community Safety, reacted to the release of the annual national crime stats by Police Minister, Nathi Mthethwa in Pretoria. AfriForum…

AfriForum has today appealed to South Africans who have been affected by farm attacks to get involved in the struggle to convince the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa to declare farm murders a priority crime. Victims are, for this purpose, encouraged to send their stories to stopthemurders@afriforum.co.za so that they can be involved in the…

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…