Mediakonferensie rakende onteiening sonder vergoeding en plaasmoorde: Alana Bailey

AfriForum today said the events which took place during the past week confirm that farm murders cannot be stemmed by applying the normal legal processes, and that only a focussed counterstrategy will offer a sustainable solution to the crisis. Hennie Bentley (73) and Gerrit Myburgh (78) were murdered in the past week, the same week…

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…

Five survivors of farm attacks will, with the support of AfriForum, cover a distance of 1000 kilometres during 26 to 29 September 2013, driving from Johannesburg to Durban to raise awareness of farm murders. The group will be known as the Frischgewaagd Dirt Riders, and will cross fifty farms where they will distribute pamphlets and…

AfriForum accused the deputy minister of agriculture, Bheki Cele, of misleading the public about the reality on South Africa’s farms, and that he does not seriously consider the plea of those who call for the prioritisation of farm murders. This follows after Cele was questioned this morning during a press conference on farm murders, to…

The South African Government’s attitude towards farm murders is the most severe form of discrimination imaginable and even though the Department of Police is the biggest scapegoat, the problem however lies much deeper than that. AfriForum and other organisations have tried various times to discuss the spurt of farm murders and potential solutions to them…