Farm attack, farm worker overpowered, assaulted and stabbed, Tweeling
A farm attack took place on 10 July 2023, at 11:00, on Aandeel farm near Tweeling, in the Free State province of South Africa. Three attackers, of which at least one was armed with a knife, approached...
View ArticleFarm attack, elderly man and domestic worker assaulted, tied up, Cullinan
A farm attack took place on 27 July 2023, at 11:00, on a farm in Hartebeesfontein near Cullinan, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Four attackers, of which at least one was armed, invaded the...
View ArticleFarm attack, farmer hospitalised, firearm and vehicle robbed, Clarens
A farm attack took place on 28 July 2023, on Curuland Farm in the Motouleng area, near Clarens in the Free State province of South Africa. A farmer, Mr. Viljoen was overpowered and assaulted by two...
View ArticleAlldays farm attack, 4th suspect, a farm worker, arrested
Limpopo SAPS Capricorn District Tracing Team arrested a 24-year-old suspect linked to a farm attack and business robbery during a Tactical Operation Tswara Tsotsi conducted in Pretoria,...
View ArticleFarm murder: Farmer murdered, wife seriously assaulted, 4 attackers arrested...
A farm murder took place early on the morning of 30 July 2023, on a farm in the Grootvlei area, South of Balfour, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Theo Bekker was opening up when he was...
View ArticleGrootvlei farm murder of Theo Bekker (79) – SAPS report
Four suspects aged between 16 and 19 were arrested in less than two hours after they brutally murdered Theo Bekker (79) and injured his wife. The suspects fled with three firearms and his vehicle in...
View ArticleFarmer found murdered in home, Biesiesvlei
A farm murder was discovered on 2 August 2023, in Biesiesvlei area, in the North West province of South Africa. Suspicion arose when Dr Carel Nel’s cattle were found walking in the road. A person went...
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21 Farm attacks, 4 farm murders in South Africa, July 2023
During the month of July 2023, there were twenty-one farm attacks and four farm murders in South Africa. In June 2023, there were twelve farm attacks and ten farm murders in the country. And in May...
View ArticleFarm murders point to consequences of Malema’s statements
The massacre on farms and small holdings this week in which six people were killed, the most recent which was last night at Randfontein, leaves no room for doubt about the consequences of Julius...
View ArticleMan shot dead while trying to protect family in Randfontein farm attack
On Thursday evening, 3 August 2023, Duwayne Smith was murdered in cold blood in front of his wife, Ingrid, and two daughters in a farm attack on a smallholding in Randridge, Randfontein, Gauteng. The...
View ArticleAfriForum safety structures fight back against farm attackers
On the evening of 8 August the AfriForum neighbourhood watch in Brits, North West, apprehended four suspected farm attackers and recovered stolen items. The neighbourhood watch received an emergency...
View ArticleHigh Court handed lengthy incarceration to two farm attackers
POLOKWANE – The Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe welcomed the lengthy jail term handed to two of the four Farm Attack accused by the Polokwane Division High...
View ArticleFF Plus demands urgent action to address farm attacks in Mpumalanga
Yet another attack on a small holding in Mpumalanga has set the alarm bells ringing, and it is clear that this province is being targeted by farm attackers. On Tuesday evening, an elderly woman, the...
View ArticleAfriForum accelerates the expansion of safety networks after a sharp increase...
AfriForum’s figures show that 76 farm attacks took place in the second quarter of 2023. The organisation’s Community Safety division verified these figures from April to June 2023. When the statistics...
View ArticleFarmworker comes to the aid of farm attack victim in Heuningspruit, Free State
On 12 August 2023 two attackers attacked Rita Jordaan (73) on a farm in Koffielaagte, Heuningspruit, Kroonstad district. She was attacked in an outbuilding by two men. They assaulted her badly and tied...
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9 Farm attacks, 2 farm murders in South Africa, 1-15 August 2023
In the first fifteen days of August 2023, there were nine farm attacks and two farm murders in South Africa. During the month of July 2023, there were twenty-one farm attacks and four farm murders. In...
View ArticleFarm attacks and murders should now be declared priority crimes
The latest statistics released by Free State Agriculture (FA) corroborate the FF Plus’s demand that farm attacks and murders should be classified as priority crimes. The statistics indicate that while...
View ArticleMarble Hall police on the hunt for suspects after farm attack in which...
POLOKWANE – The Police in Limpopo have launched an intensive manhunt following an armed robbery at a farm in Marble Hall by a group of suspects in which they allegedly stole goats and sheep valued at...
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Factually incorrect police statistics about farm murders raise serious questions
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has blasted the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) statistics on farm murders for the second quarter of 2023. The SAPS today released their statistics which...
View ArticleAttackers drink coffee while victims are tied up during farm attack – Curry’s...
A farm attack occurred around 8:30pm, 17 August 2023, on a farm in Curry’s Post, KwaZulu-Natal province. Four men entered through an open door into the house. There is no alarm system, but the garden...
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