Attempted farm attack caught on security cameras

AfriForum has submitted more than 10 000 e-mails received from members of the public via its website www.hoelanknog.co.za to the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, requesting that farm murders be prioritized. These e-mails will form part of the petition AfriForum will submit to the United Nations Forum for Minority Issues in November. During the past…

National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega is not in touch with the realities playing out on South African farms. This is the view of AfriForum after Gen Phiyega today told the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that the perceptions of people regarding farm murders should be managed. In response to questions from the SAHRC, Gen…

“Despite more than 195 farm attacks this year, Bheki Cele, Minister of Police, still refuses to declare farm murders priority crimes. This silence and apathy is indicative that Government is in fact deprioritising farm murders and attacks as crimes,” says Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Safety. Cameron argues that the State and especially the Minister’s…

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 civil rights organisation AfriForum accused Fikile Mbalula, the Minister of Police, of being a fabricator and distributor of fake news and says that the Minister is more concerned with his own political agenda than the safety of the public. This follows after a media statement by Bongani Mkongi, Deputy Minister of Police, in which…