AfriForum intensifies efforts to address farm murders
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
Civil rights organisation, AfriForum plans to hand over memorandums to 15 embassies today, asking that they put pressure on government to address farm murders.
AfriForum says there have been 30 such attacks in the last 29 days.
Spokesperson Henk Maree says the documents will focus on what they deem to be government's failure to take decisive action.
He says there have been 1 100 farm murders in the country since 1990.
"We approached first team embassies and we brought this to their attention and we do believe and we do hope that this will have a positive influence on the situation and on the crisis that we have in South Africa at the moment," he said.
Maree says organisations that focus on the prioritisation of farm murders are not apartheid sympathisers.
"We do have examples where black farmers and black workers in farms have also been attacked, have also been victims, have also been murdered. This has nothing to do with race," he said.
(File photo)
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