Farm murders are crimes of passion: Sanco

Farm murders are crimes of passion: Sanco
Farm murders are crimes of passion according to SANCO

On December 3, 2016 a suspect was arrested in connection with the murder of Bertie Cilliers on a Spitskop smallholding outside Thabazimbi, Limpopo.

The suspect allegedly attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself, however he survived.

It is now evident that the suspect is a white male who shot and killed the farmer and turned the gun on himself. However, now that a white male is identified as a suspect, The South African National Civic Organization (Sanco) issued a statement applauding the swift arrest of the Spitskop farm murder suspect. Sanco then called for “crime not to be politicised, saying farm murders are not always racially motivated but are crimes of passion involving family disputes.”

Ironically, Sanco remain quiet when farm related murdered are committed by black people, yet in this instance, the Spitskop farm murder is a white man and immediately a report is issued that farm attacks are not racially motivated.

How many white criminals are suspects in farm murders, probably less than one a year? What Sanco is trying to do is shift the focus from the thousands of brutal farm murders to ONE murder that is not politically or racially motivated.

There are thousands of farm attacks and murders reported and some are grossly inhuman, such as – Farm attackers pour petrol down victims’ throat and threaten to set him alight. The attackers then torture him for hours and burn him with a hot iron. Is this farm attack an ordinary crime?

The Bloody trail of murder in South Africa exposes this gruesome reality where entire families are butchered by attackers who are not out to rob but to kill and terrorize.

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein

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