Figures announced today: Farm murders and farm attacks rise again in 2016
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAU SA) today announced a disturbing rise in farm attacks and farm murders for 2016 with the announcement of the official figures during a media conference in Centurion. This rising trend has now already been observed for the sixth consecutive year. The…
Organisations stand together against farm murders
Various civilian organisations and opposition parties today during a joint media conference in Centurion took a stance against farm murders and made a plea to the South African government to incisively intervene to prioritise this crisis. The organisations also committed themselves to participate in the protest march against farm murders that is being planned for…
Eleven farm murders and 30 attacks in two weeks
Thirty farm attacks have already been recorded in South Africa since the beginning of February 2017, in which eleven people were brutally murdered. Five people have been murdered within the last 24 hours in two separate attacks which occurred in Mpumalanga and Limpopo respectively. “How many more people will have to lose their lives in…
AfriForum to submit practical steps against farm murders to Bheki Cele after February blood bath
AfriForum will soon send a request to the new Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, in a bid to submit practical steps in combatting farm attacks and murders. “The country has already witnessed more than 90 farm attacks this year, with about 10 murders on farms. This is already more than for the same period last…
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