Report: Farm attacks and farm murders in South Africa

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….

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…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum a month ago directed a letter for the umpteenth time to Gen. Bheki Cele, Minister of Police, and requested to meet with him regarding violence on farms, as well as the land grab crisis staring the country in the face. “Cele has up until today not even acknowledged receipt of…

AfriForum requested an urgent meeting with the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko regarding the wave of farm attacks and murders that hit the country in the past few months. This follows after Nico and Marsha Lens were shot dead on their farm in Paulpietersburg, KwaZulu-Natal last night. This brings the total number of farm murders…

AfriForum het vandag beeldmateriaal van ’n plaasaanval by ’n blitskonferensie in Centurion aan die media beskikbaar gestel. Hierdie materiaal sal deel vorm van die voorlegging oor plaasmoorde wat AfriForum op 26 en 27 November by die Verenigde Nasies se Forum vir Minderheidsaangeleenthede in Geneve, Switzerland gaan indien. Hoewel die beeldmateriaal nie geweld bevat nie, sal…