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….
19 June 2013 Exactly one year after more than a thousand South Africans had marched to the President’s office to demand intervention, AfriForum released a report in which the gross negligence of police officers in their investigation of farm murders was identified. The report was released at a conference and a copy was submitted to…
AfriForum Safety Structures in Kathu and Kuruman in the Northern Cape and Vryburg in North West have been searching for three suspected farm attackers with the South African Police Service (SAPS) since last night, after a 64 year old farmer, Christo Kruger was murdered on his farm, Byron. Kruger’s wife, Vera was left unharmed and…
Foreign visitors to South Africa are also targeted on our country’s farms. Recently, a German couple was murdered on a farm. AfriForum will therefor launch an international awareness campaign regarding farm murders later this month. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum elaborates.
AfriForum presented the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) with a list of ten proposals of ways to prevent farm murders. This action plan forms part of a report which AfriForum presented to the SAHRC during a public hearing about farm murders held by the commission in Johannesburg on 15 and 16 September. The following…
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