AfriForum to launch global campaign against farm murders
AfriForum on Tuesday said it was launching a new “anti-farm murders campaign” that would see it take legal action against the South African Police Service (SAPS) in cases where it felt they were failing to act on the crimes.
Ernst Roets, AfriForum deputy CEO said: “This campaign will be AfriForum’s largest international campaign against farm murders”.
Roets said the campaign, scheduled to start in November, would see the AfriForum making a submission about farm murders to the United Nations, correspond with more than 5 000 international and foreign media institutions. AfriForum said it would also call for a national day of protests against farm murders.
Roets noted that December 1 would mark the fifth anniversary of the “gruesome murder of the Potgieter family on their farm close to Lindley in the Free State”.
Roets said it would be a “massive campaign to mobilise support from the public for the prioritisation of farm murders”.
“It has been five years now and government still fails to act. Since then, hundreds of other farmers have been killed. If government then refuses to act, we will make sure that they are embarrassed internationally for their failure to act,” said Roets.