Report on police negligence

AfriForum’s Deputy CEO, Ernst Roets, today launched a scathing attack on South Africa’s inputs at the United Nation’s (UN’s) Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland. The South African government declared that those who ask that farm murders be prioritised, do so because they have racist agendas and because they are Apartheid sympathisers. Roets said…

AfriForum requested an urgent meeting with the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko regarding the wave of farm attacks and murders that hit the country in the past few months. This follows after Nico and Marsha Lens were shot dead on their farm in Paulpietersburg, KwaZulu-Natal last night. This brings the total number of farm murders…

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…

4 October 2012 AfriForum addressed a letter highlighting the reality of farm murders to a number of international organisations. A copy of the letter was also delivered by hand to a representative of the State President. The memorandum provide a brief summary of a number of facts about farm murders. The President’s intervention was requested….