AfriForum has condemned the horror attacks yesterday on an elderly German couple and their son in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. This civil rights organisation says that the silence of the Government on farm murders may increase attacks on farmers, because Government is failing to assist the farming community with security. The bodies of a farmer (76), his…
AfriForum requested an urgent meeting with the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko regarding the wave of farm attacks and murders that hit the country in the past few months. This follows after Nico and Marsha Lens were shot dead on their farm in Paulpietersburg, KwaZulu-Natal last night. This brings the total number of farm murders…
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…
An emotional and heart-breaking scene took place this afternoon on the farm Vaalbank, outside Bronkhorstspruit, where Duncan Nyawo, the walker-against-farm-murders, met his namesake, Dr Duncan Prinsloo, who was a victim of a brutal farm attack during which his wife was shot dead. Prinsloo, a farmer and veterinarian, is paralysed in the lower part of his…
AfriForum urged farmers in KwaZulu-Natal to mobilize and prepare themselves for land grabs. This follows after AfriForum was informed during the last 10 days of 3 farms being invaded by land grabbers, 2 farm attacks and the triple murder on members of the Schutte family in Richmond. “It is quite clear that Government has totally…
AfriForum had a very successful international march with the community, friends and family of murdered Christine Robinson today. The march simultaneously took place in Thabazimbi (Limpopo), London (England) Liverpool (England) and Vancouver (Canada) in memory of Robinson, and to put pressure on the South African Government to prioritise farm murders. Robinson was raped and murdered…
18 November 2013 AfriForum will host a blitz conference in Centurion on Monday where video footage of a farm attack will be released to the media. The material will be included in a submission on farm murders which will be presented by AfriForum to the United Nations Forum for Minority Issues in Geneva in Switzerland…
In accordance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act, AfriForum directed a formal request to the National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega, to hand over farm murder statistics from 1990 to 2015 to the organisation. The organisation further requested that the SAPS reveals the methodology concerning the collection of farm murder statistics. This follows after…
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has sentenced Siboniso Mtolo to life imprisonment for murdering a farmer in Eston, KwaZulu-Natal in September last year. In sentencing, Judge Isaac Madondo said: “Everybody needs to be protected from people like Mtolo, but more especially our farming communities”. The Judge also mentioned that the Court hopes this sentence would serve…
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will hold a public trial regarding farm murders in Johannesburg on Monday and Tuesday next week. This, after AfriForum earlier submitted formal complaints at the SAHRC against the careless attitude of the Department of Police towards the continued wave of farm attacks and farm murders in the country….
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