During the month of February 2021, there were seventeen farm attacks and three farm murders in South Africa whilst one farm attack was successfully averted. During January 2020 there were twenty one farm attacks and three attacks were successfully averted.
During December 2020, there were thirty three farm attacks and ten farm murders in the country.
For the period 1 January to 31 December 2020, on average, a farmer in South Africa was murdered every 4.7 days. There were 77 farm murders and 446 farm attacks, that is an attack every 1.2 days, in the country.
Farmers continue to be brutalised, assaulted, shot, stabbed and hacked to death across South Africa. Whites across the country are being targeted and its not only on farms. People, especially the elderly, are being brutally murdered in their homes.
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Information supplied by The Rome Research Institute of South Africa
Read: During 2020, a farmer was murdered every 4.7 days in South Africa
