AfriForum: Farm murder stats ‘inaccurate’
Lobby group AfriForum says it is currently studying the
2017/18 crime statistics on farm murders and farm attacks.
SAPS released the statistics on Tuesday, revealing that 62 murders on farms and smallholdings took place in 2017/18.
“Other crimes that were committed during these incidents of murder include 33 counts of house robbery, six attempted murder, two rape, stock theft and a single count of hijacking,” said Major General Norman Sekhukhune.
AfriForum’S head of safety, Ian Cameron, believes the police’s statistics are inaccurate.
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“We are busy verifying and comparing the statistics and according to us it’s definitely not accurate, the police are only speaking of over 60 attacks and there were far more than that.”
Cameron says police don’t always count some of the crimes that often occur during farm attacks.
“We do sit on the national rural safety forum of police where we can sit with them and we have a good relationship with them. But unfortunately, on ground level, the real figures don’t always come through as they are meant to."
Cameron says AfriForum will release its own figures on farm attacks and murders.