Farm attack victims share their stories with international media
12 November 2018
The community safety team of the civil rights organisation AfriForum visited a farm attack victim on 6 November 2018 along with a French radio station, Radio France Internationale (RFI), to talk about farm attacks and land grabs in South Africa.
David Baché from RFI conducted an interview with Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s National Head of Community Safety, and Bernadette Hall. Hall’s husband David was assaulted and shot dead during a farm attack while she was attacked with a panga, among other things.
On another occasion, the community safety team and Reuters, an international media agency, visited Jan Scheepers (79) and his wife Suzie (78) – who were viciously assaulted on their farm outside Koster.
Scheepers told the Reuters journalist how the attackers initially broke off the burglar bars on the living room window. A locked security gate forced the attackers to get access to Scheepers and his wife through a different window. “We are deaf, so we didn’t hear them enter. When we woke up, they were already standing next to me. I was then hit over the head with a piece of iron and that is the last thing I remember.”