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…
AfriForum issued a warning to the Belfast rural community after an alleged farm murderer, Petros Mamaru (24), also known as Piet, escaped from the Belfast police holding cells the past weekend. Piet, together with two other criminals, escaped from the cells between 17:00 and 17:40 on Saturday, 4 October by cutting a hole in the…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the agricultural union TAU SA today announced the statistics for farm attacks and farm murders committed during 2014 at a joint media conference in Centurion. A total of 277 farm attacks of which the details could be verified by the two organisations were carried out during 2014. A total…
The Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission, Adv Lawrence Mushwana confirmed to AfriForum in a letter that the Commission has come to a decision to hold a public trial regarding farm murders. The decision was made at a session of all the commissioners of the SAHRC after considering a formal request by AfriForum….
Dear Gen. Riah Phiyega, national police chief: I considered writing an open letter to you, but decided against it because by now I also had enough of that. I will get right to the point and extend an open invitation to you. This week you made comments about farm murders and attacks that really upset…
Visitors at the Farmers Market in Pretoria on Saturday were touched by a portrayal of an empty food stand as part of an awareness campaign for the upcoming movie about farm murders in the country, Treurgrond, which starts in May 2015. Bea Pretorius, Head of Marketing at AfriForum, said that it was obvious from the…
AfriForum and Elize Perrin, whose brother, Mauritz Oberholzer, was murdered on his farm in September last year, submitted a volume comprising 10 complaints to the SA Human Rights Commission on Thursday, 30 May 2013. What is AfriForum asking from the SAHRC and what is their feedback? Esmarie Prinsloo interviews Ernst Roets on the issue.
The community of Barkly-East in the Eastern Cape approached AfriForum to intervene after an elderly couple was brutally murdered on their farm in the district. AfriForum again appealed to the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, to prioritise farm murders, but also indicated that the organisation will take the initiative by establishing local security networks in…
AfriForum will hold a quick conference on farm murders next week. During the conference a report containing case studies about gross negligence on the part of the South African Police Service (SAPS) during the investigation of farm murders will be presented. Victims who have lost loved ones in farm murders will recount how negligence during…
If you want to know what’s being planned for the How long still campaign before the end of November, this insert is for you. Ernst Roets speaks about – among other things – a music video shoot for Afrikaans singer Jaco Labuschagne, who wrote a song about the critical subject of farm murders.
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