Mediakonferensie rakende onteiening sonder vergoeding en plaasmoorde: Ian Cameron

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum today announced the first issue of this organisation’s farm safety assessment as resource for people in rural areas to secure their properties. This follows after approximately 110 farm attacks and murders in the country since the start of 2018. “This practical assessment provides an instrument to the rural community to…

AfriForum has announced its escalated campaign against farm murders in Centurion today. This follows after the wave of farm attacks which swept the country since the beginning of the year. Since the beginning of 2014, 24 incidents on farms and smallholdings were reported to AfriForum, and three farmers were murdered. The action plan includes an…

AfriForum today asked for an appointment with the Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Adv. Lawrence Mushwana, to obtain the Commission’s support for AfriForum’s campaign against farm murders. In the letter addressed to Mushwana, Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, explained that the organisation is currently assisting a number of victims of…

Christine Robinson, a British woman in her fifties, was gruesomely beaten to death on her farm about 15 km outside Thabazimbi. The police are investigating the murder and rumour has it that two farmworkers, who may have a connection to the case, are missing. AfriForum once again appealed to Government to prioritise farm murders. “This…

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….