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Dewetsdorp farm attacker and other housebreakers arrested

Hpg protection group was investigating a farm attack and house robbery as well as several other house burglaries in the vicinity of Dewetsdorp, in the Free State, this week in collaboration with...

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Farm attack, woman assaulted, locked in room, home ransacked, Nylstroom

Anike van der Walt (80), who stays alone, was attacked by an unknown number of attackers on her plot in Groenfontein, 2km from Vaalwater, near Nylstroom (Modimolle), in the Limpopo province. The...

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Horrific farm attack: Rape, violent assault, kidnapping, robbery, Glendale

A horrific farm attack took place on 9 January 2020, at 23:00 on the farm Tregenia, in the Kranskloof area of Glendale, KwaZulu Natal province. Mr. R Moodley heard bannging on the door and when he...

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Boekenhout farm attack of the Van Niekerk’s, another suspect arrested

Hpg Heritage Protection Group, HPG, in conjunction with Modimolle detectives arrested a suspect in Naboomspruit on 13 January 2020. The suspect has been positively linked to the the attack of Mr and...

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House robbery, 5 attackers, man (73) overpowered, tied up, Theescombe, PE

SAPS Kabega Park detectives are searching for suspects allegedly involved in a farm attack and house robbery that took place on Monday evening, 13 January 2020 at 23:00. It is alleged that the...

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2019 South African farm attacks: A farmer is killed every 7,6 days

On average a farmer is killed in South Africa every 7,6 days. There were 453 farm attacks during 2019, which on average is a farm attack every 1,2 days. There were 48 farm murders in this period. The...

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Farm attack, 3 attackers, young woman shot in the stomach, Nooitgedacht

On the night of 17 January 2020, at approx 23:20 a farm attack took place on Marina Drive in Nooitgedacht, Muldersdrift, Gauteng province. Three attackers forced their way into a cottage on the...

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Farm structures and alertness foil farm attack, 6 attackers arrested, Vredefort

A planned farm attack on the farm Goedgedacht on the S713 road, in the Vredefort district, of Pieter and Erna Rademan was foiled after information was received by farmers and the SAPS and followed up....

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Farm murders: AfriForum lays complaints against Ramaphosa and Sisulu at UN

AfriForum on 21 January 2020, laid formal complaints against President Cyril Ramaphosa and Lindiwe Sisulu (in her capacity as the former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation) with the...

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Averted farm attack underlines importance of community safety structures

The FF Plus commends the courage demonstrated by farmers and the community in Vredefort who committed themselves to the prevention of crime and who cooperated with the police to successfully avert a...

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9 Farm attacks in South Africa, 1-15 January 2020

In the first fifteen days of January 2020, there were nine farm attacks, whilst one farm attack was successfully averted. And whilst the government denies the existence, thirty six farm attacks and two...

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Farm attack: 3 Attackers open fire on Dutch tourists, Buffelsdrift

Two tourists from the Netherlands and their tour guide were attacked and shot at on a smallholding in Buffelsdrift, north of Pretoria, Gauteng province on Thursday afternoon 23 January 2020. The...

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Farm attack: Family of 8 brutalised by 6 attackers, assaulted, tied up, Deelpan

A farm attack took place on 25 January 2020, at 22:15, on the farm Silverton, in Deelpan, in the North West province of South Africa. The attack, by six armed men, endured until just before midnight....

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Farm attack: Bogus cops ask that dogs be locked up, attack couple, Dewetsdorp

On 21 January 2020, a farm attack took place between Dewetsdorp and Bloemfontein where three attackers, posing as police officers, approached Christo Richter and his wife Annelie at 17:30. The...

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Couple brutally beaten, kicked, stabbed on their farm – Welbekend, Bapsfontein

Farm attackers strangled a man, Timothy Rademeyer (51), with a scarf and cut his private parts with a sharp object in a barbaric attack that happened Tuesday night or in the early morning hours on...

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Deelpan farm attack, 4 attackers arrested after family of 8 brutalised

In an effort to turn the tide against crime, a joint operation was conducted by Provincial Organised Crime, the Tactical Response Team (TRT) and Gauteng Organised Crime. Four suspects aged between 29...

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17 Farm attacks in South Africa during January 2020

During the month of January 2020, there were seventeen farm attacks in South Africa. During this period only two farm attacks were successfully averted. Thirty six farm attacks and two farm murders...

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Brutal farm murder: Attacker was given R1000 bail and has disappeared

The South African Police Service in Lephalale has launched a massive manhunt for a 27 year old murder suspect, Tshepo Justice Rasodi after he failed to avail himself before the Lephalale Regional Court...

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Farm attack: 3 Police officers arrested, AfriForum considers ‘watching brief’

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has noted with concern the arrest of three police members from the Ficksburg Police Station in relation to a farm attack that took place near Rosendal on 13...

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Farm murder of Fanie and Colleen Engelbrecht, 2 Mozambicans found guilty

Two Mozambicans were found guilty for the brutal murder of Fanie Engelbrecht (78) and his wife Colleen (74) on Mother’s Day, 13 May 2018, between 09:00 and 10:00, on their farm Welgevonden near...

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