Gauteng Premier must send loud and clear message that land grabs will not be tolerated
5 July 2019
The FF Plus is grateful that the Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, classified farm murders as a priority crime in his SOPA, but it is not enough.
The Premier emphasised safety, social cohesion and food security while farmers cannot farm in peace, land grabs are encouraged and farmers are made the scapegoats for everything that goes wrong in South Africa.
The FF Plus agrees that there must be social cohesion and that South Africa must be free of racism and all other kinds of "-isms". But farm murders are just a symptom of hate speech, racism and populist statements made by politicians who have nothing better to offer their voters. These political leaders must be held accountable and must be prosecuted for their hate speech and the division that they cause.
The brutality and cruelty associated with farm attacks and murders make it more than just a case of theft or murder, it is motivated by hate. It certainly is not normal to drown a child in a tub of boiling water or to poke out elderly people's eyes.