The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s community safety team together with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) today visited two farms to talk to a farm attack victim, as well as the family of farm murder victims. On the Engelbrecht family’s farm outside Fochville, where two members of the family – Fanie (78) and Colleen (74) –…
The South African Government’s attitude towards farm murders is the most severe form of discrimination imaginable and even though the Department of Police is the biggest scapegoat, the problem however lies much deeper than that. AfriForum and other organisations have tried various times to discuss the spurt of farm murders and potential solutions to them…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum will meet with Lt. Gen. Phahlane Kgomotso, the acting National Police Commissioner, on 4 May 2016 to discuss the manner in which farm murders can be prioritised and how AfriForum can contribute. This follows Lt. Gen. Phahlane’s remark in the media earlier the year that farm murders should enjoy greater…
It has come to the attention of AfriForum that in Limpopo, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, police are unlawfully insisting that community members report at police stations, following their involvement in this week’s #BlackMonday protests across the country. “Police are now busy with politics and their violation of people’s civil rights testifies to their inability…
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…
It was announced today at a joint media conference of AfriForum and the acting National Police Commissioner, Lt Gen Khomotso Phahlane, that farm murders will be officially prioritised. This conference follows a joint workshop attended by AfriForum and Phahlane. Various steps will be taken, which comes down to a focused strategy against farm murders. The…
AfriForum has been informed that Petrus Dambiso Moyo escaped from the holding cells of the Ellisras Police Station in the past 24 hours. Moyo is one of four persons suspected of the murder on Dr Werner Emslie on 20 September 2017 on the farm Afguns. “Dr Emslie is one of 77 people who have been…
The scuffle outside the office of the Minister of Police during last week must be regarded as confirmation that AfriForum’s objections to the attitude of the police concerning farm murders have merit. Not only were my two colleagues (Ian Cameron, Head of Community Safety, and Marcus Pawson, Provincial Coordinator for Gauteng South) and I handled…
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…
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…
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