South Africa – Since 1994, the end of the so called Apartheid in South Africa, whites people, especially white farmers, have been subject to extremely brutal and racist murders. South African police stopped releasing separate figures on farm attacks in 2007, and incorporated them into wider violent crime statistics.
It is now twice as dangerous to be a farmer as it is to be a police officer in South Africa, according to Johan Burger, a senior researcher with the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies’ crime and justice programme.
What troubles many South Africans is the horrific and unnecessary violence that’s a grim hallmark of farm attacks. All for pocket money, and possessions of relatively little value – a too-common story in South Africa’s rural areas, where mostly white Afrikaner farmers feel they are being targeted in gratuitously violent attacks on their remote farms and smallholdings.
They accuse police and government of failing to make these crimes a priority. And as the horrifying murders continue, they are growing increasingly angry.
These murders are marked by a unique level of brutality – often worse than that found in terrorist attacks.
The argument that farm murders are ‘only murder’ does not hold water.
Genocide Watch PDF (Warning: Contains pictures of violently murdered children and grown-ups)
Video published on Aug 3, 2014
Speech in London highlighting the white commercial farm murders / plaasmoorde and crime in South Africa.
South Africa Today – South Africa News
