There are fears moves to take land from white farmers without compensation could encourage more violence. But opinions are divided on whether they are being targeted because of race Continue reading…
When a group of four men went to Mr. Kobus van Heerden’s farm in Kiepersol-Hazyview on Sunday night, they did not know they were making the biggest mistake of their lives. Continue reading…
South Africa is a country that is singularly lacking in real debate: it only knows slogans and monochrome distinctions between good and evil. Nelson Mandela was a saint and Verwoerd a disciple of the devil. Nadine Gordimer, who the zealous Swedes thought worthy of the Nobel Prize, publicly admitted she dealt in “Manichean poisons”. Continue reading…
On Friday nights a 44-year-old woman was shot in the lower back during a farm invasion near Hankey in the Eastern Cape. She was then allegedly raped in front of her three young children. Continue reading…
Jane Smit(Not her real name)who is a field journalist at SABC said she was told to stop covering farm attacks and murders by her superiors. Continue reading…
Farm Manager (40) was tied up with wire, hands behind his back and repeatedly stabbed and hacked to death by thugs. His wife was raped by the thugs. Continue reading…
Three elderly people, aged 78, 79 and 85 years old, were attacked three masked thugs (one armed with a gun, one with a knife and one with a crowbar) in an armed robbery on their Bushy Park smallholding outside Port Elizabeth on Tuesday night. Continue reading…
ESHOWE – POLICE not only need to solve the murder of Sphamandla Gift Xulu on a farm in Eshowe this week, but must also bring to book a mob of arsonists who torched farms, a home, staff quarters, equipment and other buildings after the incident. Continue reading…
The people of Eshowe carried out brave revolutionary acts of justice today. The racist white farmers kill blacks like we are animals. We are tired of living under terrorism in our own land. The murderers who again murdered must never set foot on the farm. It now belongs to the people! Continue reading…