AfriForum welcomes the announcement by Lt-Gen. Khomotso Phahlane, acting National Police Commissioner, that farm murders, farm attacks, and livestock theft will be prioritised by the police. AfriForum has been campaigning for years for the prioritisation of farm murders and has even approached the United Nations on various occasions in this regard. Ernst Roets, the Deputy…
AfriForum has been driving a campaign since 2012 to have farm murders prioritised. Although the organisation is of the opinion that the problem has not been resolved completely, it sees the announcement as a giant leap in the right direction. These are the most important milestones in the campaign to have farm murders prioritised: 2012…
“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…
Mr Senzeni Zokwana, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and a delegation from AfriForum met in Pretoria this morning to discuss farm murders, as well as other rural violence and community relations in rural areas. During the meeting, the Minister and AfriForum agreed that the Minister, through his department, will facilitate an initiative to…
AfriForum created a platform where members of the public can add their support to the 1995 World Cup Springbok rugby team’s appeal to the South African Rugby Union (SARU). In this appeal, the former Springboks request a moment of silence for all victims of farm murders and violent crimes before next Saturday’s Currie Cup final…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s community safety team this past week spent a day with the Engelbrecht family near Fochville after two members of this family – Fanie (78) and Colleen (74) – were brutally murdered during a farm attack on 13 May. A German public TV broadcaster – Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) – accompanied…
AfriForum and the agricultural union TAU SA today announced the statistics for farm attacks and murders that took place in the first part of 2015. They also announced upcoming plans and big projects for the prioritising of farm murders. Statistics show that 1747 farm murders and 3542 attacks took place between 1990 and midyear 2015….
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the TAU SA announced today that South African farmers and farm workers experienced the most brutal year yet with the most recorded farm attacks since the recording of farm attacks commenced in 1990. The past year’s figures were processed and verified to provide the most accurate reflection of the…
While the civil rights organisation AfriForum and hundreds of members of the public today observed a moment of silence at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria for all the victims of farm murders, the elderly Bokkie Potgieter (70) was murdered brutally on a farm in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. The organisation today as part of #BlackMonday came…
Personnel of the civil rights organisation AfriForum were recently invited by the writer AnnMaree Barry to act as guest speakers in Calitzdorp during the launch of her latest book entitled Afvlerkvoëls. Barry is a sergeant associated with the Calitzdorp police station and the book deals with the sadness of a farm attack and the trauma…
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