Farm murders: President must recognise gruesome reality and take action
6 July 2020
The gruesome reality of farm murders has been denied and dismissed by the greater part of the South African society and the ANC government for long enough now – President Cyril Ramaphosa should have recognised it and done something about it a long time ago already.
In the most recent incident in a wave of attacks and murders that have only increased in severity over the last few weeks, an Indian farmer's 26-year-old pregnant wife and mother of two young children in Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal died during an attack in which her throat was slit.
It appears as if the man put up a fight in an attempt to protect his family against the attackers as they also tried to strangle his eight-year-old son. The man and his daughter, four, are unharmed.
The leader of the FF Plus (Dr Pieter Groenewald) will send an official letter to President Ramaphosa to address this incident and the occurrence of farm attacks in general as well as to bring it to the President's attention that his impression that only white farmers are being murdered is wrong.