Full moon: Attackers are lurking in the shadows – Raise the alarm, don’t go outside!

Oorgrens veiligheid

Full moon: Attackers are lurking in the shadows – Raise the alarm, don’t go outside!
Full moon: Attackers are lurking in the shadows - Raise the alarm, don't go outside!

Oorgrens veiligheid are warning people to be vigilant during the current full moon. ‘Farm attackers and other criminals are using the moonlight to achieve their goals and they are lurking in the shadows!’

A supermoon refers to a full or new moon that is within 90% of its closest point to Earth. And of course this creates enough light for targets to be identified and surveyed, but also creates dark shadows and space for these undesirables to move around in.

The warning comes amid the unprecedented high crime rate and escalating number of farm attacks in the country.

It’s not only people in rural areas and on smallholdings or farms who are being warned but all South Africans.

In many instances people are lured out of their homes to investigate a noise, to check why the power tripped and or to attend to some other suspicious occurrence.

The advice is simple – DO NOT GO OUTSIDE – RAISE THE ALARM! And wait for assistance.

From 1 January to 31 July 2022 there have been seventy eight farm attacks and twenty one farm murders in the country.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2022:

January 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.
February 2022 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.
March 2022 – 7 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.
April 2022 – 12 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.
May 2022 – 10 Farm attacks and 2 farm murders.
June 2022 – 3 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.
July 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

Read about South African farm attacks here

Information supplied by Oorgrens veiligheid

Statistics supplied by The Rome Research Institute of South Africa

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