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AfriForum Safety Structures in Kathu and Kuruman in the Northern Cape and Vryburg in North West have been searching for three suspected farm attackers with the South African Police Service (SAPS) since last night, after a 64 year old farmer, Christo Kruger was murdered on his farm, Byron. Kruger’s wife, Vera was left unharmed and…

The Pietermaritzburg High Court has sentenced Siboniso Mtolo to life imprisonment for murdering a farmer in Eston, KwaZulu-Natal in September last year. In sentencing, Judge Isaac Madondo said: “Everybody needs to be protected from people like Mtolo, but more especially our farming communities”. The Judge also mentioned that the Court hopes this sentence would serve…

AfriForum today appealed to President Jacob Zuma to enter into conversation with the victims of farm attacks. The civil rights organisation also expressed its concerns with regards to the fact that the President finds it easy to make time in his diary to actively participate in an awareness campaign against rhino poaching in the Kruger…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has issued a report today in which the relationship among politics, hate speech and an increase in farm murders is set out. The report deals with five prominent cases where hatred and violence was fuelled by political leaders against white farmers. It was found that farm murders increased by an…

The murderers of Ernest (77) and Annetjie (76) van Rooyen were each handed two life sentences last week. Oupa Mokoena (47) and Ezekiele Mguni (30) murdered the couple in January of this year on their farm Somerset near Parys in the Free State. Ernest’s body was found on the floor of their farm store –…