Mediakonferensie rakende onteiening sonder vergoeding en plaasmoorde: Kallie Kriel

The civil rights organisation AfriForum will meet with Lt. Gen. Phahlane Kgomotso, the acting National Police Commissioner, on 4 May 2016 to discuss the manner in which farm murders can be prioritised and how AfriForum can contribute. This follows Lt. Gen. Phahlane’s remark in the media earlier the year that farm murders should enjoy greater…

The sentences of two convicted farm attackers, who brutally attacked Pieter and Henriëtta Botes on their Mpumalanga farm, Remhoogte in 2011, were reduced with 15 years. This, after a judge of the North Gauteng High Court ruled that the magistrate who sentenced them to 35 consecutive years’ imprisonment “overemphasized the gravity of the crime”. “The…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s community safety team this past week spent a day with the Engelbrecht family near Fochville after two members of this family – Fanie (78) and Colleen (74) – were brutally murdered during a farm attack on 13 May. A German public TV broadcaster – Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) – accompanied…

AfriForum today announced that the civil rights organization will launch an intensified campaign next month against government’s refusal to prioritise farm murders. The organization is currently compiling a document, titled “The Mthethwa Docket”. The document contains details of ten events in the past two years where victims of farm attacks and citizens whose loved-ones were…

AfriForum said today that the civil rights organisation was grateful for the verdict in the farm murder case of André van der Merwe, a farmer from Ottosdal who was murdered in 2011, but added that a reactive approach to the farm murder crisis will not stop this phenomenon. The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, was…