The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the TAU SA announced today that South African farmers and farm workers experienced the most brutal year yet with the most recorded farm attacks since the recording of farm attacks commenced in 1990. The past year’s figures were processed and verified to provide the most accurate reflection of the…
While the civil rights organisation AfriForum and hundreds of members of the public today observed a moment of silence at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria for all the victims of farm murders, the elderly Bokkie Potgieter (70) was murdered brutally on a farm in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. The organisation today as part of #BlackMonday came…
Personnel of the civil rights organisation AfriForum were recently invited by the writer AnnMaree Barry to act as guest speakers in Calitzdorp during the launch of her latest book entitled Afvlerkvoëls. Barry is a sergeant associated with the Calitzdorp police station and the book deals with the sadness of a farm attack and the trauma…
AfriForum was today victorious in the Pretoria High Court after Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen adjudicated that the South African Police Service (SAPS) must present statistics regarding farm murders and attacks between 1990 and 2015, as well as the methodology concerning the gathering of the statistics, to the civil rights organisation. This originated from the…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum accused Fikile Mbalula, the Minister of Police, of being a fabricator and distributor of fake news and says that the Minister is more concerned with his own political agenda than the safety of the public. This follows after a media statement by Bongani Mkongi, Deputy Minister of Police, in which…
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) –…
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