Stop Die Moorde – AfriForum

On Tuesday and Wednesday (25 and 26 November 2014) AfriForum will attend 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 will be the fifth time that AfriForum will be attending the annual session…

Thirty farm attacks have already been recorded in South Africa since the beginning of February 2017, in which eleven people were brutally murdered. Five people have been murdered within the last 24 hours in two separate attacks which occurred in Mpumalanga and Limpopo respectively. “How many more people will have to lose their lives in…

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…

The New York Times responded to the recent tweet by President Donald Trump on the situation in South Africa with two scathing articles: One by Kimon de Greef and Palko Karasz, who argue that the President’s tweet was based on ‘false claims’; the other by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Norimitsu Onishi, who argue that the…

AfriForum will release a report on Thursday in which the brutality of farm murders is depicted. The International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture has also given AfriForum the undertaking that they will study the report. The report will be introduced on 26 June – the day which has been proclaimed by the United Nations…

AfriForum will launch a petition this Wednesday for prioritizing farm murders. The petition will be submitted in November to the United Nations’ Forum for Minority Issues in Switzerland. Various victims who have lost loved ones in farm attacks during the past few years will be present at the launch. Their names will top the petition…