Farm attacks: Victims tell their stories

The New York Times responded to the recent tweet by President Donald Trump on the situation in South Africa with two scathing articles: One by Kimon de Greef and Palko Karasz, who argue that the President’s tweet was based on ‘false claims’; the other by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Norimitsu Onishi, who argue that the…

AfriForum will take up the attack on the Stiglingh couple in North West with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), and will request the Commission to take a stance on prioritising farm murders. The SAHRC confirmed its willingness to discuss the matter with AfriForum yesterday. A date will be scheduled for the meeting within…

AfriForum and Elize Perrin, whose brother, Mauritz Oberholzer, was murdered on his farm in September last year, submitted a volume comprising 10 complaints to the SA Human Rights Commission on Thursday, 30 May 2013. What is AfriForum asking from the SAHRC and what is their feedback? Esmarie Prinsloo interviews Ernst Roets on the issue. Post…

On Tuesday and Wednesday (25 and 26 November 2014) AfriForum will attend the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland, to address the Forum on the state of minority rights in South Africa. It will be the fifth time that AfriForum will be attending the annual session…