AWB's Terre'blanche killed: DA calls for calm

I wish this was just another April's fool joke....it's just unbelievable! And why the f*ck isn't the government of this country calling for calm?? Maybe SA doesn't have one.

The leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugene Terre'blanche has reportedly been murdered on his farm in the North West province.

The DA in the North West has expressed its outrage and concern about Terre'blanche's murder as this has happened in a "province where racial tension in the rural farming community increasingly is being fuelled by irresponsible racist utterances by the leader of the ANCYL Leader Julius Malema and the North West Cosatu Secretary, Solly Pheto".

DA member of parliament Juanita Terblanche says the party does not share the AWB leader's political conviction "but an attack of this nature can be regarded as an attack on the diverse components of the South African democracy".

The country's national opposition expresses their condolences to the Mrs Terre'blanche and his family.

The DA called for people to "remain calm" and on the ANC to strongly condemn racist utterances.

According to 702's Eyewitness News, Terre'blanche's murder has been confirmed by police.

Update:

Leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging(AWB) Eugene Terre'blanche was attacked and killed at his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp on Saturday, North West police said.

Captain Adele Myburgh said Terreblanche, 69, was attacked by a man and minor who worked for him after they allegedly had an argument about unpaid wages around 6pm.

"Mr Terre'blanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries. There was a panga on him and knobkerrie next to the bed.

"A 21-year-old man and 15-year-old boy were arrested and charged for his murder. The two told the police that the argument ensued because they were not paid for the work they did on the farm," she said.

Myburgh said Terre'blanche was alone with the two workers at the time of the attack.

She said the two would appear on charges of murder in court soon.

The Democratic Alliance in the North West expressed its "outrage and concern" at Terre'blanche's murder.

"This happened in a province where racial tension in the rural farming community is increasingly being fuelled by irresponsible racist utterances by the leader of the ANCYL Leader Julius Malema and the North West Cosatu secretary Solly Pheto," said DA MP Juanita Terblanche.

She said the DA did not share Terre'blanche's political conviction but an attack of this nature could be regarded as an attack on the diverse components of the South African democracy.

Terblanche sent her condolences to the family and called to the people to remain calm.

North West MEC for Public Safety Howard Yawa reacted with shock at the news of Terre'blanche's death and appealed for calm in the province.

Yawa condemned the "callous murder in the strongest terms possible" and also called to the people to allow the law to take its course. - Sapa

On the curious case of "shooting the boer."

It's tempting to be disgusted by the lack of sensitivity to farmers shown by Pierre de Vos in this post from Constitutionally Speaking. But the legal issues he highlighted about the ruling regarding the phrase "kill the boer" are worth paying attention to. We've observed the slip in the judicial system over the years since apartheid ended, with politicians walking free from serious crimes with barely a slap on the wrist. But the farm murders is an issue that's very close our hearts as white South Africans, and if it isn't then it certainly should be. The incitement of violence by politicians needs to stop!

News that the South Gautenteng High Court Acting Judge Leon Halgryn ruled on Friday that use of the words “dubula ibhunu (shoot the boer)” was unconstitutional and unlawful is odd, to say the least. Unfortunately this was an urgent application so the judge did not seem to have given reasons for his judgment. Nevertheless, if the media reports are correct, the judgment does not seem to make much sense.

I am not sure on what basis the “publication” and the “utterance” of the words can be declared unconstitutional. It is true that section 16 of the Bill of Rights states that the right to freedom of expression does not extend to incitement of immenent violence or advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethinity, gender or religion and that constitutes incitement to cause harm. However, section 16 itself does not ban such words, but merely states that the utterance of such words are not protected speech.

This would mean such speech could be regulated or banned by the legislature and such a ban could not be challenged on the basis that it infiringed on the section 16 protection of freedom of expression. It decidedly does not mean that in the absence of such regulation by the legislature the words are “unconstitutional”. How a particular phrase could ever be declared unconstitutional is beside me. There is no provision in the Bill of Rights that prohibits any particular phrase. If the judge was quoted correctly, he was obviously talking nonsense.

Another question is whether a particular phrase could be declared unlawful by a court. I suspect not. The utterance or publication of some words in certain context could amount to defamation or it could fall foul of section 10 of the Equality Act but that could only be done with reference to the specific context and the facts of a particular case.

Maybe the Acting Judge was relying on the criminal law principle in common law and in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act which prohibits the incitement of a crime. But then it would have to be shown that an accused “sought to influence the mind of another person towards the commission of a crime” and that would depend on the facts of a particular case and could not be decided in the abstract.

It seems to me bizarre that a court could decide in the abstract in an urgent application that a particular phrase was unconstitutional and unlawful. Surely one will have to decide on a case by case basis whether the utterances of words defamed someone or falls foul of the Equality Act or constitutes incitement to commit a crime.

To hold otherwise would be dangerous, nonsensical and would lead to absurd consequences. What would happen if I write a short story and one of the characters sings “Shoot the Boer”. Would this mean my story when published would be declared “unconstitutional” and “unlawful”?
At the very least it would be good for the judge to present written reasons for this judgment. Based on the available evidence it makes absolutely no sense.

Anger over more farm murders

Beeld, 2 March 2010

Polokwane - Farmers are once again insisting on the reinstatement of the commando system after two more farmers were murdered in Limpopo.

The throat of a Belgian farmer, Etienne Cannaerts, 61, was presumably cut with his own pocket knife on his farm near Lephalale (Ellisras) on Friday afternoon.

In the other incident, Paul Dunn, 49, a farm manager at Constantia Products, a citrus farm in the Letsitele district outside Tzaneen, was shot dead in his home in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Five people were murdered on farms in Limpopo in February.

Angry

Theo de Jager, deputy president of Agri SA, said on Monday that farmers in Limpopo are extremely upset.

"People are angry. Many farmers have called me to say they want the commando system to be reinstated countrywide."

TAU SA said in a statement that their farm watch system, which uses green flashing lights during patrols, should be recognised by the police. The police consider the green patrol lights to be illegal and have clashed with TAU SA several times about the matter.

According to Japie Ellis, a farmer from the Lephalale district, Cannaerts was presumably attacked as he was opening his farm gate on Friday after having dropped of his workers. The attackers then drove with Cannaerts in his vehicle to a water pan on the farm.

Ronel Otto, provincial police spokesperson, said the victim’s hands and feet were tied and his throat was cut. "His body was found later that night on an isolated road," said Ellis.

According to Otto, nothing was stolen during the attack.

Gruesome murder

Marco Ruiter, a good friend of Cannaerts, said on Monday that the murder was gruesome. Cannaerts and his wife, Ingrid, had lived on the farm for the past six years.

They don't have South African citizenship.

"Neither his wife nor we want to say anything about the matter. After the post-mortem his body will be taken to Belgium where he'll be buried."

No suspects have been arrested yet.

In another incident, Dunn presumably woke up after three attackers had broken into his house.

Both sides opened fire.

Dries Enslin, chair of Agri-Letaba, said Dunn shot one of the attackers. Dunn was shot in the chest, neck, right arm and back.

According to Otto, the attackers stole various items from the house.

The wounded attacker's blood was found outside the house. This suspect was apprehended on Saturday afternoon by farmers in the area, who used a private helicopter during the search. The suspect is in a hospital under police guard.

Police 'have no control'

Enslin said 12 crime incidents, which include house burglary and vehicle theft, have been reported on farms in the Letsitele district over the past ten days.

"Clearly the police have no control over the situation," said Doors le Roux, chair of the security committee of TAU SA North.

They have requested an urgent meeting with Dikeledi Magadzi, MEC for safety in Limpopo, and Calvin Sengani, police commissioner, to discuss the farm attacks.

Enslin said farmers in the Letsitele area participate in sector policing and have a good relationship with the police, "but much more can be done".

Agri SA will hold a crime conference in Centurion on Monday, where the security situation on farms will be discussed with Nathi Mthethwa, minister of police.

Ethnic Farm Genocide update: 3074 Dead

My hat goes off to Censorbugbear for the meticulous and extremely detailed latest report on the farm murders in SA. Please make sure you click and view this updated report. It really is a shocker. For me it has been pretty much an academic issue and those numbers meant very little, until I read this post.

The detail is incredible and includes an alphabetical name list of victims as well as numerous links to articles and other sources. It was only as I read those names (so many of them; little white crosses in a field, line after line after line) that it hit me. Names I have seen before and other people that I met and knew in SA with the same names, names like Sarie, Petro, Babs, Tienie, Ockie and many, many more, I went ice cold. 3074! This is real!!!

There is some form of ethnic cleansing going on in SA. It may not be ANC sponsored, but it certainly is ANC condoned and tacitly sanctioned. There is not a doubt remaining in my mind anymore. This is low grade, subtle genocide. I implore you, especially overseas readers, view the site with an open mind. I am including Adriana's introductory comment to the article.





South Africa has less than 11,000 ‘white’ commercial farmers left, growing food-crops on less than ONE PERCENT of the entire land surface. Thus, this death toll of more than 3,070 white farmers out of 11,000 in total, definitely represents the world’s highest murder-rate, being at nearly 30,000 per 100,000 of this population group.

The most dangerous job in the world clearly is to be a white agriculturalist in South Africa. And most of these agriculturalists (Boers) also belong to the Afrikaner ethnic minority -- whereas the country’s more than 1-million upwardly mobile black farmers aren’t being attacked like this – indicating that this small white Afrikaner minority of rural dwellers is being targeted very deliberately for an ethnic-cleansing campaign to clear them from the countryside.

Also note that the South African crime statistics are routinely being manipulated downward for political reasons. Even so, the country’s official average annual murder-rate is the world’s second-highest, at nearly 122 murders per 100,000 residents.

Violence continues in Zimbabwe

Farmers found bloodied, beaten.

An elderly Zimbabwean farmer, his wife and their son-in-law, who'd been kidnapped, were found along a stretch of road on Monday morning - bloodied and beaten.

They had been kidnapped from their farm in the Chegutu district on Sunday by heavily-armed men. Mike Campbell, 75, was severely assaulted.

He was concussed and his collar bone was broken. His wife, Angela, 66, had her arm broken in two places. Their son-in-law, Ben Freeth, had cuts and bruises and had been beaten on the soles of his feet.

A friend of the family, Sue Marland, said all three had been admitted to hospital in Harare. Angela and Ben were due to be discharged on Monday afternoon, but Mike still had to undergo scans to assess the extent of his head injuries.

The kidnapping took place at exactly the same time as Robert Mugabe's re-inauguration as president of Zimbabwe. "They were taken to an indoctrination camp (after being kidnapped from their farm in Mount Carmel)."

Marland said their attackers had threatened to shoot them if they didn't sign a document in which they undertook to withdraw a case lodged with the Southern African Development Community's tribunal.

Mike made history in December last year when he asked the tribunal in Windhoek to rule on the seizure of his farm, on which he had been since 1974. This was the first time the tribunal had been approached to make this kind of decision.

The tribunal issued an interim order forbidding the Zimbabwean government from laying a hand on Campbell or his property until such time as the Zimbabwean High Court could hear the matter.

Marland said Gilbert Moyo, a Zanu-PF member infamous for his role in attacks on and intimidation of farmers in the area south-east of Harare, was in charge of Sunday's kidnapping.

He allegedly had performed a number of similar attacks in the past few months. The Campbells and Freeth were dropped off in the early hours of Monday morning at a mining community at Kadoma, about 30km from Chigutu, where Freeth knocked at a door and phoned his wife, Laura.

AFP has reported police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena as saying that 16 people had been arrested over the attacks and 20 others were being sought. He blamed the violence on "common criminality".

ANC statement returns us to our rightful place - what?!

This reporter must be smoking magic mushrooms. Yippee, he says, the ANC made a statement – just a statement – and that returns us to “our rightful place”?!

Wait a freakin’ minute...

For eight years, 4000 farmers and their workers were driven off their farms violently. The ANC said nothing.

For eight years, Zim has been in economic freefall and the ANC said nothing.

For more than eight years, Mad Bob has had the explicit support of the ANC regime to rig election after election and the ANC said nothing.

So yesterday, faced with condemnation from the world, the ANC finds its ‘moral’ voice?!

And just putting out a “statement” makes everything alright?

How about DOING something, ANC? How about booting that mad f**k in Zim into the sea? How about stopping his free electricity and freezing his funds? How about a good old-fashioned kick up his arse?

A “statement” is just words, something the ANC is adroit at doing. Big on words but small on delivery. Meaningless drivel.

The ANC remains as culpable for the mess in Zim as Zanu-PF and Mad Bob and until a properly elected president is in place, the ANC’s crude, dim-witted, worthless “statement” means ZILCH, NADA, N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Do you UNDERSTAND the notion, ANC?!!

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The ugly incidents and scenes that have been visited on the people of Zimbabwe persuade us that a run- off presidential election offers no solution to Zimbabwe’s crisis.

The very legitimacy of a run-off has already been severely compromised by the actions of both Zanu-PF militants and those state officials who do not even conceal their partiality in favour of the governing party.”

The words of Morgan Tsvangirai? Of Helen Zille? Or Gordon Brown?

Wrong on all three counts. These are the words that appeared in a statement released by the ANC yesterday.

They are words that will profoundly change the diplomatic climate surrounding Zimbabwe.

For the first time, Robert Mugabe stands alone in Africa, the South African lifeline to legitimacy that has been maintained by President Thabo Mbeki finally severed.

For the first time, the world speaks with one unequivocal voice on Zimbabwe, acknowledging that Mugabe’s is a government prolonging its stay in power through unacceptable means.

The ANC statement was echoed by ANC president Jacob Zuma, who said yesterday: “We cannot agree with Zanu-PF. We cannot agree with them on values. We fought for the right of people to vote, we fought for democracy.”

But the ANC’s words do not just provide hope to Zimbabweans; they finally break the great human rights drought in South African politics.

The ANC statement returns this country to its rightful place in world affairs — on the side of the people, in favour of democracy, believing in human rights and against the tyrants.

It represents welcome nourishment for a young democracy that has been starved of hope by years of Machiavellian diplomacy, which has seen this country remain silent on human rights in the face of world anger.

We must now return to our core values and stand by them, no matter the short-term cost.

We want your land

It begins…

Despite the new Bill being unconstitutional, the ANC, true to form will ride roughshod over the rights of property owners and any objectors and expropriate any land and do whatever it wants in a fit of yet more bad law.

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The Agricultural Union of South Africa (AgriSA) and the South African Forestry Institution have expressed their opposition to the Expropriation Bill. The legislation has met with strong resistance from certain quarters, with the DA saying that the law would erode the property rights of many.

They say that they support the constitutional principle of land reform but that the detail of the Expropriation Bill actually goes against the Constitution and therefore they have given up reasons why they are not supporting the bill per se.

They say it undermines the provisions for property rights and that it gives wide powers to the expropriating authority. By the same token, it also limits the courts regarding compensation.

AgriSA president Lourie Bosman says the proposed expropriation bill must be withdrawn. He was speaking during parliamentary hearings on the proposed bill.

Bosman says the legislation could have unintended consequences including the loss of investor confidence and it could threaten food security. There has been concern that the legislation could be open to legal challenges.

The government and the ANC, on the other hand, feel the measure is the only way the government can deliver on its restitution goals. Public hearings on the proposed measure are being held by the Public Works committee.

Cosatu fans race hate

One arm of the axis of evil opens its beak and spews out racist excrement. With partners like this, it is no wonder that the ANC has made such a mess of the country.

Figure this too: Zooma is being put into office by Cosatu. If this is the direction that Zooma chooses to take, be prepared to run for the hills.

That the actions of a farmer who chose to protect his life by shooting two uninvited 'visitors' at 2:00am in the morning, killing one, can be classed as anything but an act of self-defence is beyond the incomprehensible.

But then, that is the plan. The pretence of calling it a "hate crime" by Cosatu is deliberate. Cosatu wants farmers and Whites vilified and driven out so that they can take the land. It will be their focus once Zooma gets into power. Three thousand farm murders is all part of that "plan".

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“Cosatu’s provincial secretary in the Northwest, Mr. Solly Phetoe’s, statement that the shooting of two black intruders in which one was killed in a farm house at 02:00 in the morning, is “a racist murder” is extremely irresponsible and fans racial hatred.

It’s comments such as these which stimulates racial conflicts and create explosive situations on farms”, Mr. Pieter Groenewald (MP), provincial leader in the Northwest and chief spokesperson on Safety and Security for the Freedom Front Plus says.

“The action of Mr. Jaco Swart of Delareyville was justified because his life was being threatened. The Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, Ms. Susan Shabangu, can not say that police members may shoot to kill if their lives are threatened but then it is not allowed for ordinary citizens. With the spate of farm murders and the cruelty with which it is perpetrated, it is understandable that criminal intruders are shot.

Mr. Phetoe’s comments and request that Mr. Swart should now be arrested smacks of racism. His additional comments that a program is being lead “by a few white racist people at (the department of) Justice” is an attack on the independence of the judiciary”, Groenewald said.

The Freedom Front Plus will be writing a letter to Cosatu in which the leadership will be asked to intervene in these irresponsible comments made by their provincial officials.

White massacre in South Africa

From the satellite channel MNET comes this horrifying excerpt of White people being massacred in South Africa - it's a shocking must see!

Fight-back farmer kills midnight attacker

Foreigners chancing upon sites like this, reading about these horrific attacks must think that these are isolated incidents and 'crime happens everywhere'.

No it does not, not crime like this.

Not with the brutality and frequency as in South Africa.

Twenty thousand murders a year, 50 per day, in a country described as the most violent outside of a war zone and a murder rate TEN TIMES that of the US.

This is not 'just crime', it is the result of years of inaction by the ANC gubbermunt and deliberate policies aimed at disintegrating a once proud police force into what can only be described as a police farce.

These are the consequences of the ANC campaign to vilify the White population. These are hate crimes, pure and simple.

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A 54-year-old Richmond farmer, despite stab wounds in his back, shot both his attackers and killed one of them in his bedroom on Wednesday night.

Grant Warren,speaking to The Natal Mercury from his hospital bed on Thursday, said he had had an "horrific" experience.

He said he went outside with his weapon at about 10pm on Wednesday when his dog began barking but saw nothing and went back into the house.

"My wife Muffy and I were packing - we were going away for the weekend," he said.

About midnight, while they were watching TV, shots were fired through his bedroom window and two men entered.

"I rolled over to get my weapon from the bedside table and fell on the floor. Both men jumped on me. One held me down while the other stabbed me," he said.

Warren freed his hand and shot one of the men, who then left. He then shot the other man two or three times. Wounded, the man wrestled with Warren and bit his arm.

"I was getting weaker and weaker. My wife hit him on the head with the bedside lamp. I then hit him on the head with my gun," said Warren.

At some stage, one of the men also kicked and assaulted his wife.

Warren said the attackers had cut through an electric fence to get on to his premises.

In the past four months his office, which is in the house, and factory had been broken into four times.

Police Superintendent Henry Budhram said the motive for the attack was being investigated.

He said police had found the body in Warren's bedroom.

"There were bloodstains on the walls and floor... the large window was smashed open and a knife was also found near the deceased," Budhram said.

Farm murders foreshadow SA land war

This is the tale of two South Africans, both worried by the same thing. Both are farmers - one white and one black.

The white farmer is Louis Meintjes, who, every year, makes a pilgrimage up the steps of the giant Voortrekker Monument to renew his own commitment to fight for the land he bought and has worked for the past 25 years. But he and his neighbours are under siege.

Countless white farmers have fled after a huge rise in farm attacks since the end of apartheid. Many have been killed, many with a brutality that has shocked the police investigating the cases.

The farmers that remain are gripped by an epidemic of fear.

In Mr Meintjes' neighbourhood of just four square miles, in the northern Gauteng province, there have been dozens of attacks, many fatal. He heads the local armed self-defence unit, which uses mobile phones and radios to keep track of intruders. But in the long grass and vast open plains, it is easy to hide.

Payete Ndlovana and his wife, Martha, are separated from what was once their family land by razor wire.

Men such as Mr Meintjes believe that the campaign against them is orchestrated by the ruling ANC government, whose purpose is to drive them off the land in a Zimbabwean-style land grab, albeit disguised by legal powers.

Payete Ndlovana, the black farmer, explains the violence as revenge for the sins of apartheid. He and his family were kicked off their farm more than 30 years ago and since 1994 he has vainly tried to recover it.

Despite government promises, Mr Payete is furious at the slow pace of land reform. He drives out from his small house in the townships to what was once his family's land, now fenced off with razor wire.

He backs Robert Mugabe's approach in Zimbabwe and wants whites to go somewhere else. "Mugabe is right. They kicked us off our land, that's why we fight," he says. "This was our farm, we did not steal it. Despite this sense of injustice, the police think the motive for the farm attacks is more prosaic: pure greed.

But if this is the motive then why the extreme violence?

One case involved an elderly woman being hacked to death, her body suffering almost 40 cuts.

The farmers make easy targets. Many farms are isolated and vulnerable. Mpumalanga province is served by a small and under-resourced police team led by Capt Van Zyl; he has eight men and two cars to police farm attacks in an area the size of Scotland. Suspicions of revenge being behind the killings are fuelled by the fact that many attacks are linked to workers on the farms, who provide information if not active support to those accused of the attacks. The irony is that the outcome is often the abandonment of the farm and the loss of their jobs.

At present there are about 38,000 white farmers in South Africa. Ten years ago, there were 52,000.

Anger is growing in the townships at the slow pace of land reform. The government promised 30 per cent of South African land would be in black ownership by the year 2015. But much less than five per cent has changed hands. At the current rate, it will take 60 years to process the backlog of existing claims. Even by that point, 70 per cent of land will remain in white hands. Frustrated claimants like Mr Payete want the government to seize property back on their behalf, but Trevor Manuel, the highly respected finance minister, is anxious to avoid any suggestion of a racially inspired land grab. That would drive both white farmers and their money out of the country, as in neighbouring Zimbabwe.

Mr Meintjes, however, accuses the ANC of stoking exactly the kind of race-based animosity they claim to be avoiding. "We didn't steal this land. In South Africa, there is government propaganda that the white farmer has a lot of land and we need to kill him."

ANC genocide of White farmers continues

Since the ANC came to power in 1994, thousands of farmers have been murdered, an average of one murder every two days. In farm murders extreme violence is widespread. If women are present, they are generally raped and torture is now routine.

The question about farm murders is “why?” The government's standard approach is to declare that most farm murders and attacks are simply criminal.

But the following needs to be pointed out:

• Why are the attacks and murders on farms so premeditated, while statistics indicate that the overwhelming majority of murders in South Africa are related to alcohol, drug abuse, and interpersonal and domestic conflict?

• Why are farm attacks so extremely brutal, which is not the case with the majority of murders in South Africa?

• Why are farm attacks and murders mostly black on white, while this is not necessarily the case in the rest of South Africa? If theft is the most important motive, why are thousands of black shop owners not brutalised remotely as much during attacks by gangs as is the white farming community?

• Why are farmers constantly accused of mistreating their workers, thus precipitating farm attacks, while the Helen Suzman Foundation found that 93% of farm workers indicate their relationship with their employer is good?

• Why have bad socio-economic conditions become the reason for attacks, while it is acknowledged that bad socio-economic conditions existed before 1994 in black communities.

Read more here: The Great South African Land Scandal

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At a time of concern over food security, the government is treating food producers with contempt, according to the Freedom Front Plus (FF+).

“The brutality of farm murders is shocking,” FF+ MP Pieter Groenewald said in a statement.

He said he was waiting for a report by a committee appointed by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula to investigate the reasons for the exceptional brutality shown to victims of violent crime.

He asked a question about it in Parliament early in April.

Groenewald quoted figures showing farmers were the most susceptible sector of society to murder, with an average of 313 cases in every 100 000.

Law enforcers, like police, are in second place, with 153 out of 100 000.

“A committee appointed in 2003 to investigate farm murders found victims of farm attacks were twice as likely to be injured than those who were targeted in cash-in-transit robberies.

“The chances of a victim dying were three times as high as in cash-in-transit robberies.

“It is scandalous that Minister Nqakula will not discuss safety with farmers’ organisations,” said Groenewald.

“Sector policing is not working in rural areas. This is causing a security vacuum, and the government knows this.”

The committee found there were 1 398 victims in 962 farm attacks, of which 147 or ten percent were murdered and 484 were injured.

“People forget about the trauma and injuries of these victims of farm attacks.”

About 1 600 farmers have been murdered.

Farm attacks and murders traumatised the entire farming community, Groenewald said.

Why? The answer is simple. The farm murders are a deliberate campaign by the axis of evil to rid the land of Whites.

STFU!

[Do as I say and not as I do. Hate speech, it seems is only 'hateful' when Whites say the words. When blacks do it, it is acceptable.]

Groblersdal - Residents of this Limpopo town have asked police to investigate the role of political hate speech in fuelling farm murders.

A memorandum was submitted to Groblersdal police station on Tuesday after the recent murder of Johan Myburgh, 33, on his parent's farm outside the town on April 19.

Kallie Kriel, chief executive of AfriForum said: "Those who inflame hate and aggression towards farmers have to be regarded as accomplices to the murders of farmers."

Kriel, who signed the memorandum, said theft could not be used as a motive for farm murders, as it was not necessary to torture and murder people when robbing them.

Kriel urged police to launch a comprehensive investigation into the role played by hate speech by politicians against farmers.

He accused Agriculture Minister Lulu Xingwana and her koetie*, Dirk du Toit of being party to inciting hatred against farmers.

"The minister, for example, made herself guilty of hate speech on December 5 2006 during a gathering at Church Square, Pretoria, by falsely alleging that the agricultural industry was riddled with cases of violence against women and children and that farmers raped and assaulted farm workers," he said.

He said Du Toit even went so far as to accuse farmers of committing ethnic genocide.

He said that during the ANC's protest action at the first court appearance of 18-year-old Skierlik murder suspect Johan Nel, ANC MP Patrick Chauke publicly blamed the white community for the murders, after which protestors yelled slogans such as "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!".

Nel, who is not a farmer [details, who needs them?], is accused of killing four people, including a three-month-old baby, and wounding six in a shooting rampage at Skierlik informal settlement near Swartruggens in North West in January.

Kriel said posters with slogans such as "One settler, one bullet!", "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!" and "Maak dood die wit man", were also displayed during the court appearances.

At the funeral, speaker after speaker launched scathing attacks against the farming community and whites, and called for "action" against farmers.

Meanwhile, no one has been arrested yet for Myburgh's murder.

"They shot him in the back of his head through a window," said resident Yolanda Duvenage on Tuesday. She said police had a responsibility to ensure the safety of farmers.

I Luv SA-isms: * kaffir boetie