Retired Sunday Times journalist Adriana Stuijt writes: "I have been logging the atrocities committed against Afrikaners since at least 2000. And I've been noticing an amazing trend in Agri-South Africa's crime statistics.
While they had listed 1,047 farmers murdered from 1991 up to and including 2001, they suddenly dropped these statistics to one murder a year average. Somehow, they 'forgot' about those more than 1,000 farmers who had been murdered before 2001...
In April 2012, Agri-South Africa wrote in a misleading article that 'out of the 35,000 commercial farms operating in South Africa, 3,158 farmers have been brutally murdered since 2004, whist most of these murders have taken place since 2008."
"Farm attacks and murders remains a serious issue for all South Africans, out of the 35000 commercial farms operating in South African 3158 farmers have been brutally murdered since 2004, whist most of these murders have taken place since 2008.
"Organisations within South Africa have been monitoring and reporting on farm attacks and have reported the following statistics:'
1995 (1), 1997 (1), 1999 (1), 2000 (1), 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2003 (2), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (2), 2007 (1), 2008 (37), 2009 (465), 2010 (439), 2011 (551), 2012 to date (92) = 1599 farm attacks and 3,158 people murdered.
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Farm-Attacks-In-South-Africa-20120416
However -- the above statistics are grossly inaccurate. Agri-SA somehow very conveniently "forgets" to mention the more than 1,047 farmers and their relatives who died in horrific farm attacks from January 1991 to July 2001 - and what has happened to their farm-murder statistics from 2001 to 2004?
They claim that the farm-murders suddenly dropped down to one average murder a year in that time period. That's most certainly NOT accurate, as my own statistics indicate for those years:
Anyone can read the year-by-year summaries and details of these farm attacks on
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl
THIS IS WHAT AGRI-SOUTH AFRICA WROTE ON AUG 7 2001:
"-A total of 1,047 white farm-dwellers died in farm attacks from Jan 1991 to Jul 2001: Agri SA"
August 7, 2001 "Since 1991 more than a thousand people, mostly commercial farmers, have died in 5,594 attacks on farms", Agri South Africa said today. (SAPA reported).
"The statistics were released by Annelize Crosby, Agri SA director of legal and management services, who said they would form part of a submission on behalf of farmers to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Agri SA, which represents about 45 000 commercial farmers and 35 000 emerging farmers, was in the process of compiling a submission on what farmers perceived to be human rights abuses against them. Cross said the security issue, apart from land rights, was the single most important issue for commercial farmers. Farmers increasingly felt their basic human rights, as guaranteed in the Constitution, were being ignored by government. Yesterday the Democratic Alliance said a lack of security on farms has resulted in South African farmers now living in "a continuous state of terror". Human Rights Commission recently launched national investigationThe SAHRC recently launched a national year long project to investigate human rights abuses on farms under the banners of land rights and tenancy, safety and security and social and economic rights. The commission has asked for submissions from farmers and farm workers alike. Crosby said a submission, made on behalf of the federation's affiliated agricultural unions, would be finished by the end of the week. "We will make a written submission and most probably also a verbal submission. The material used for our submission will be made available to all our members. We have also called on individual farmers to make submissions to the commission," Crosby said. The security issue moved back under the spotlight this week when Johan Stapelberg, 40, and his brother-in-law Hendrik Johannes Uys, 35, were killed during an attack on a farm near Boons in the North West Province on Saturday. The two had reacted to an emergency call from a neighbour. Two days later two more farmers were injured during attacks. Attacks cannot be tolerated says Transvaal Agricultural UnionThe Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) today said the escalating flood of attacks and barbarism aimed at "South African farmers had reached a level at which it could no longer be tolerated.
"Gert Ehlers, TAU President, said the politicians' silence on the issue only sanctioned these attacks and the state was failing dismally to ensure the rights of the country's people to live in a safe and secure environment.
"If the government cannot or will not fulfil this responsibility, they should come out and say so," Ehlers said.
Recorded attacks over past ten years: According Agri SA statistics farm attacks had increased dramatically since 1998 and the escalation showed no signs of slackening off.
1991; 327 attacks and 66 murders,
1992; 365 attacks and 63 murders,
1993; 442 attacks and 84 murders,
1994; 443 attacks and 92 murders,
1995; 551 attacks and 120 murders,
1996; 486 attacks and 109 murders, i
1997; 433 attacks and 85 murders,
1998; 769 attacks and 142 murders,
1999/2000: 813 attacks 144 murders
2001; 902 attacks and 142 murders.
totals: 5,531 attacks, 1,047 murders
Agri-SA also wrote in July 2001: "Illegal occupations to be raised In addition to expressing concern over safety and security, Cross said Agri SA would also make a submission on the land rights issue. The federation recently stated that current legislation rendered landowners helpless against large scale illegal squatting. The Prevention of Illegal Evictions Act afforded more protection to illegal occupiers than to land owners. East Rand farmer Braam Duvenhage earlier this month attempted to remove about 40 000 illegal occupants from his property at Modderklip near Daveyton after obtaining a court order for the eviction of the squatters on his land in May last year. However, the local bailiff refused to remove them before the cost of eviction, amounting to R1,8 million, had been paid. Agri SA has called on government to review the current legislation to pre-empt more land invasions. The federation will also make submissions on other matters which affect farmers and farm workers. These include the deterioration of rural roads, farm schools, a lack of housing and unemployment in rural areas". - Sapa
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2003/12/crime-busters-of-sa-2001-2003-farm.html
http://www.sabcnews.co.za/south_africa/crime1justice/0,1009,18954,00.html
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