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However, there are no reliable figures that suggest that white farmers are being targeted in particular or that they are at a disproportionate risk of being killed. [17] The Government of South Africa and other analysts say that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South Africa and do not have a racial motivation. [2] [7] [18] [19]
Lobby group AfriForum called farm attacks a "form of terrorism". [14] Horner's killing was also used as propaganda to fuel the White genocide conspiracy theory in regard to South African farm attacks, with attempts by alt right groups to claim the attack was an anti-white hate crime opposed to a non-racial violent crime. [15] [16] [17]
The South African Police responded by setting up roadblocks and confiscating weapons. Tensions were running high between the police and the AWB due to a previous incident on 11 May 1991, when a group of policemen wounded four AWB militants attempting to drive black squatters off a Ventersdorp farm.
At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement of closely packed metal shacks, South ...
The SAPS is responsible for managing 1,123 police stations across South Africa, [588] and as of 2020 had 187,000 service members (down from 192,000 in 2019). [589] By contrast South Africa had 450,000 private security guards in 2020 (and 470,000 in 2021), [590] besides 1.5 million qualified "but inactive" private security personnel. [42]
The Western Cape 2012 Farm Workers' strike was a wave of strikes and protests by agricultural workers in the Western Cape from 27 August 2012 to 22 January 2013. The events led to the deaths of 3 workers, R160 million in damages as well as a 52% increase in the official minimum wage.
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. Like many other farmers, he ...
Abduction and murder of three black South African anti-apartheid activists by members of the South African security police. Landmines planted on farm roads: 1985 to 1987 On farm roads across South Africa. 23–25 [19] At least 150 landmines were planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe. The Cradock Four murders: 27 June 1985 town of Cradock, Eastern Cape 4