South African Farm Murders Are Up 167 Percent on Last Quarter.
Farm murders in South Africa, where farmers are mostly white, have increased sharply quarter-on-quarter, according to a leading civil rights organization.
by Jack Montgomery
Farm murders in South Africa, where farmers are mostly white, have increased sharply quarter-on-quarter, according to a leading civil rights organization.
“Although the number of [farm] attacks for the first and second quarter is more or less the same, murders increased by 167 percent – from nine in the first quarter to 24 in the second quarter,” reports Jacques Broodryk, community safety spokesman for the AfriForum organization which represents the Afrikaner minority, often referred to as Boers.
The South African authorities appear to be of little help, with just 15 of the 76 farm attacks recorded in the second quarter of 2023 seeing suspects arrested. They may be taking their lead from President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has refused to authorize a commission of inquiry into farm attacks and denies they are being orchestrated to drive white people off their land.
Ramaphosa has himself championed a bill authorizing the seizure of white people’s farmland without compensation, which stalled after then-U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in 2018 but has been revived now that Joe Biden occupies the Oval Office.
The plight of South Africa’s white minority has been elevated overseas in recent days by Elon Musk, the South African-born owner of the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform.
Musk publicly denounced Ramaphosa over his failure to challenge Julius Malema, the Marxist-Leninist leader of South Africa’s third-largest political party, for leading a packed stadium in chants of “kill the Boer, the farmer!”
Musk also slammed The New York Times, which ran an article suggesting the chant should not be “taken literally,” for “support[ing] calls for genocide.”
Malema’s rally was followed by a brutal farm attack in which a 79-year-old man was murdered by intruders who beat him with a pipe and slit his throat.
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