Tag: murders
A multifaceted approach needed to stop killing KZN councillors
The Chairperson of the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation, China Dodovu, says the political killings in KwaZulu-Natal has...
Soldiers on Cape Town metropole streets as murder rate causes concern
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Thursday said he had presidential approval for the deployment of soldiers in the Western Cape following a spate of...
Trump asks for study on farm killings in South Africa
US President Donald Trump asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and "killing of farmers",...
Farm attack and murder numbers
It's taken 11 years but the persistence of Freedom Front Plus MPs has paid off with statistics on farm attacks and murders...
Call for specialist rural security police units
Six farm attacks reported in 72 hours at the start of this week have again put the spotlight on rural security, or...
Another farm attack in Western Cape
The unwelcome phenomenon of farm attacks and murders is growing in the Western Cape after being largely confined to the country's northern,...
Police Minister on rural security strategy
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula this week met with the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) as part of ongoing engagements with different stakeholders in...
Farm murders can impact on food security
Freedom Front Plus (FF+) leader, Pieter Groenewald, concerned about the high murder rate in South Africa is worried the even higher rate...
Farm attacks and murders continue unabated
South Africa's agricultural community, providers of much of the country's food needs, remains firmly in the sights of criminals with 47 murders...
Farm attacks and murders debated in Free State legislature
Last week's first ever parliamentary debate on farm murders has been followed by another call for action, this time in the Free...
Parliament hears it’s more dangerous being a farmer than a policeman
Opposition Freedom Front Plus (FF+) party leader Dr Pieter Groenewald this week told MPs it was "nearly three times more dangerous to...
Parliament will debate farm attacks and murders
National Assembly Speaker, Baleka Mbete, has done an about turn and there will be a debate on farm murders in Parliament.
FF+ leader,...
More calls for rural security to be upped
The recent spate of farm attacks and murders has apparently not been sufficient to galvanise Parliament into action with a request for...