The civil rights watchdog AfriForum, today requested Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula, to urgently intervene in the South African Police Union’s (SAPU) planned nationwide strike involving the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) 10111 call centre personnel, claiming salary increases. Oscar Skommere, Deputy General Secretary of SAPU, says that hundreds of 10111 personnel will strike as from…
AfriForum today announced that 2018 has already witnessed about 109 farm attacks and about 15 farm murders in South Africa. “Our rural areas are trapped in a crime war,” says Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Safety. “Although the South African government denies that a violence crisis is staring rural areas in the face, the numbers…
AfriForum is to lay charges against the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko, the National Police Commissioner, Gen Riah Phiyega and the Tshwane Metro Police, after representatives of this organisation and victims whose loved ones were recently murdered on farms, were today pushed around by police officers and threatened with arrest in front of the Minister’s…
AfriForum has been leading a campaign that the Department of Police and SAPS must release annual statistics regarding farm attacks for a while. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, said that it is not as difficult to release figures on farm attacks as the Department of Police and the South African Police Service (SAPS) imply….
AfriForum today demanded the urgent intervention of Fikile Mbalula, Police Minister, after four farm murders were committed in the past 48 hours. Piet and Tilla van Zyl were murdered near Immerpan in Limpopo on Sunday; Arno Niehaus was murdered near Maanhaarrand in Northwest on Sunday, and; Anton Smuts was murdered and set on fire near…
The civil rights watchdog AfriForum today announced the first issue of this organisation’s farm safety assessment as resource for people in rural areas to secure their properties. This follows after approximately 110 farm attacks and murders in the country since the start of 2018. “This practical assessment provides an instrument to the rural community to…
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