Farm Murders: Widow’s message to America

AfriForum today alleged that the silence of the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, on farm attacks borders on collusion. This was in reaction to the news that the bodies of another elderly couple (both between 70 and 75) were found on their farm in the Free State. The man’s body was found on the floor…

AfriForum and victims whose loved ones were murdered on farms started a petition today for prioritizing farm murders. The petition will be submitted to the United Nations Forum for Minority Issues in November this year. At this event, a report entitled “The Mthethwa Docket” was also introduced. The report details ten instances during the past…

AfriForum today attended 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 is the fifth time that AfriForum is attending the annual session of this forum. According to Alana Bailey, Deputy CEO of AfriForum…

20 February 2012 began as an ordinary day in the lives of David and Bernadette Hall. The Halls were milking cows on their farm, Buffelshoek, near Fochville. There they were overpowered by five attackers. Bernadette was tied up and assaulted with a blunt object. David was less fortunate. After a fight with the robbers, who…

AfriForum has been leading a campaign that the Department of Police and SAPS must release annual statistics regarding farm attacks for a while. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, said that it is not as difficult to release figures on farm attacks as the Department of Police and the South African Police Service (SAPS) imply….