Tag: rural security
Free State rural security not up to scratch
Rural security as supplied by police in South Africa’s central province – Free State - is nowhere near able and possibly even willing to...
Rural crime continues as ag body calls for police minister’s dismissal
Crime in its widest form is an undeniable component of everyday South African life in both rural and urban areas with ongoing announcements and...
Ag association wants security expenses to be tax deductible
The apparent dearth of official assistance from police, tasked nationally to keep South Africans safe, has long impacted on the country’s rural population, especially...
Agriculture minister “concerned” about farm attacks
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza added her voice to those speaking out against the lack of rural security especially concerning...
Free State farm attack and Limpopo stock theft again show sad...
An added task on the shoulders of soldiers deployed to protect South Africa’s land borders is apprehension and return of stolen livestock as well...
Call for calm in Senekal
Law enforcement agencies will be out in force for the second court appearance of suspects in the Senekal farm manager murder case on Friday,...
Another step to improving rural safety
This week saw a high level meeting where police, organised agriculture and civil society took rural security head on with commitments made in a...
Rural security in Gauteng not a given
South Africa’s smallest and most urbanised province – Gauteng – is not immune to the scourge of farm attacks and murders.
The provincial Member of...
Mpumalanga police station robbed
South Africa’s rural safety plan, now apparently back on the national agenda following a recent Parliamentary debate, took a hit at the weekend when...
Improved co-operation coming between farmers and police
Organised agriculture and the police service are co-operating on implementing what is officially called the revised national rural safety strategy.
In a joint statement AgriSA...
KZN police commit to improving rural security
Indications are police in KwaZulu-Natal, scene of probably the most heinous farm attack this year, will support farm murders being declared a hate crime...
Agricultural community faces high murder risk
Farmers, their families and those working for them are four times more likely to be murdered than “the average South African” and twice more...
Parliamentary debate on rural security coming
Thandi Modise, the Speaker of the National Assembly, has agreed to a nationally important debate on farm attacks and murders in the wake of...
Political parties looking to improve rural security
President Cyril Ramaphosa is to be personally appraised of the worsening rural safety and security situation by letter and steps have been proposed to...
Continued concern over farm attacks
Continued criminal activity in South Africa’s agricultural areas has seen leading farmer organisations and two political parties again calling for action and intervention of...
FF+ reaction to new rural safety plan
Freedom Front Plus (FF+) leader Pieter Groenewald maintains the latest SA Police Service (SAPS) rural safety plan is “encouraging, but nothing will change if...
Rural safety and security will be pushed in Parliament say DA...
The issue of rural crime is going to be tabled earlier rather than later once South Africa’s sixth parliament gets to work after the...
Police reservist recruitment move gets AfriForum approval
Pretoria-headquartered civil rights organisation AfriForum welcomes – with reservations – the announcement of an increase in police reservists specifically with an eye to improving...
Policing in rural areas set to improve
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko says his department will look into ways of improving rural safety and policing to strengthen security in rural...
