Farm Murders

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has declared November 2015 as a national month of protest against farm murders. Various actions will be launched during November that will focus on increasing international pressure on the South African Government to prioritise farm murders. AfriForum requests the public to show their support for this campaign by visiting the…

AfriForum’s Deputy CEO, Ernst Roets, today launched a scathing attack on South Africa’s inputs at the United Nation’s (UN’s) Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland. The South African government declared that those who ask that farm murders be prioritised, do so because they have racist agendas and because they are Apartheid sympathisers. Roets said…

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…

Christine Robinson, a British woman in her fifties, was gruesomely beaten to death on her farm about 15 km outside Thabazimbi. The police are investigating the murder and rumour has it that two farmworkers, who may have a connection to the case, are missing. AfriForum once again appealed to Government to prioritise farm murders. “This…

Two farm attacks took place in Theunissen and Bainsvlei in the Free State this morning, during which three murders were committed. The civil rights organisation AfriForum today once again appealed to the president to intervene to make the farm murder crisis in South Africa a national priority. “This means that seven farm murders have now…

AfriForum this morning submitted criminal charges against six individuals who are instigating people through social media to commit farm murders, to murder white people or who allege that they intend to do it themselves. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum explained that the civil rights organisation has received several complaints about the threats from their…

Research on farm attacks compiled by the Solidarity Research Institute (SRI), in conjunction with Prof. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Nantes Kelder, Lorraine Claasen, Dr Johan Burger and Ernst Roets, in November 2012. Inside: A national campaign against farm murders Overview of farm attacks in South Afric and the potential impact thereof on society A proposed model for…