Kallie Kriel – Plaasmoorde

The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the agricultural union TAU SA today announced the statistics for farm attacks and farm murders committed during 2014 at a joint media conference in Centurion. A total of 277 farm attacks of which the details could be verified by the two organisations were carried out during 2014. A total…

Representatives of AfriForum are currently in Australia as part of this civil rights organisation’s international campaign against farm murders, where they are relating the stories of victims of farm attacks and farm murders. AfriForum has already met with Minister Andrew Hastie, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, and has participated in…

AfriForum sent an urgent request to the National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Zach Modise, regarding an internal investigation at the Barkley-East Prison in the Eastern Cape after four prisoners escaped yesterday, including two murder suspects arrested for the murder of farmer Sarel Pretorius in January 2014. Their absence was only noticed at a check count…

In accordance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act, AfriForum directed a formal request to the National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega, to hand over farm murder statistics from 1990 to 2015 to the organisation. The organisation further requested that the SAPS reveals the methodology concerning the collection of farm murder statistics. This follows after…