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) –…
AfriForum today appealed to President Jacob Zuma to enter into conversation with the victims of farm attacks. The civil rights organisation also expressed its concerns with regards to the fact that the President finds it easy to make time in his diary to actively participate in an awareness campaign against rhino poaching in the Kruger…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum will meet with Lt. Gen. Phahlane Kgomotso, the acting National Police Commissioner, on 4 May 2016 to discuss the manner in which farm murders can be prioritised and how AfriForum can contribute. This follows Lt. Gen. Phahlane’s remark in the media earlier the year that farm murders should enjoy greater…
It has come to the attention of AfriForum that in Limpopo, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, police are unlawfully insisting that community members report at police stations, following their involvement in this week’s #BlackMonday protests across the country. “Police are now busy with politics and their violation of people’s civil rights testifies to their inability…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum once again made an appeal to the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko, to prioritise farm murders. This follows after an elderly couple and a friend of them were attacked this weekend on their game farm close to Thabazimbi. Bruno Res (73) was shot in the arm and his wife Petru…
AfriForum today presented 15 embassies with a memorandum in which the civil rights organisation requests that these countries must exert pressure on the South African government to protect the rights of minorities as well as to address the farm murder crisis. The memorandum specifically emphasises the conduct of representatives of the South African government at…
It was announced today at a joint media conference of AfriForum and the acting National Police Commissioner, Lt Gen Khomotso Phahlane, that farm murders will be officially prioritised. This conference follows a joint workshop attended by AfriForum and Phahlane. Various steps will be taken, which comes down to a focused strategy against farm murders. The…
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