AfriForum will soon send a request to the new Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, in a bid to submit practical steps in combatting farm attacks and murders. “The country has already witnessed more than 90 farm attacks this year, with about 10 murders on farms. This is already more than for the same period last…
AfriForum today sent a PAIA application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Act No. 2 of 2000) to the office of Supra Mahumapelo, Premier of the North West, over the erection of a statue of Pres. Jacob Zuma in Groot Marico. In this application the civil rights organisation requests the following…
AfriForum on 7 March 2018 sent a request to Genl. Bheki Cele, the new Minister of Police, with a view to arrange a meeting to discuss farm murders and illegal land occupation. This follows after numerous remarks from political circles since the beginning of the year over the expropriation of land without compensation. “Political remarks…
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…
1 December 2012 The Potgieter family was murdered on their farm near Lindley in the Free State on 1 December 2010. In the light of this, AfriForum, together with victims of farm attacks and persons who had lost loved ones in farm murders, held a protest march to Mthethwa’s office in Pretoria. Initially, Mthethwa tried…
AfriForum has again appealed to communities, especially those in rural areas, to safeguard themselves and to call in the help of the civil rights organisation to establish neighbourhood watches. This, after two more farm murders took place in Boschkop, east of Pretoria, which brings the number of farm murders in the Boschkop and Cullinan area…
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