Theo de Jager
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Farmer in Limpopo, South Africa. Former President of World Farmers Organisation -WFO. Chairman of Saai, FANRPAN and Agri All Africa.
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SA produces 125 000 tons of avocados 🥑 per year on 14 700ha, exporting 66 000t of it and sustaining 11 500 jobs on those farms
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A farmer in Balfour has been tortured and most brutally killed, and his wife is in a serious condition in hospital. 4 Perpetrators were apprehended after they rolled the stolen vehicle near Villiers
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Like so many other farmers I’m on my way to Senekal to display my grief and anger with the brutal murder of Brendin Horner in Paul Roux, Freestate. Like so many other farmers I hold the
@MYANC
responsible. They created and maintain this poisonous environment. The world must know!
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The state withdrew the eviction of farmer Ivan Cloete of the Western Cape who got evicted from his land reform farm to make way for a wealthy MK cadre. Thank you to all who added their voices to push back against a fundamental injustice!
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The farmers’ community in South Africa is reëling after 4 extremely gruesome murders in 35 farm attacks in June; taking it to 17 murders in 141 attacks in 2020. Government is silent on it
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Three farm attackers, who tortured an elderly couple near Steenbokpan, fled into Botswana where they were shot and killed by the Botswana police
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Sapeko Tea Estates (Magoebaskloof) 2007 and now. 3 Disasters struck the farm: an escalation in minimum wages left some 12000 workers without jobs, land claims without farmer development, and the kind of cadre deployment which is based on the assumption that anyone can do any job.
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The robbery last night at Grootvlei Police Station in which a large number of firearms and ammunition were stolen, once again reveals the vulnerability of the police, the desperate need to implement the rural safety plan, and the role of police firearms in violent crime in SA
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The first avocado exports to Japan are on the ship, and to India it was sent by air.
Yesterday Min
@JohnSteenhuise
met with a Chinese delegation. Their Plant Protection Authorities approved and the first containers of avocado will leave next week.
Next: ostrich, nuts, dogfood
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Zimbabwe revised it’s visa regime for 29 countries with IMMEDIATE EFFECT to unlock the potential of the tourism industry.
Zimbabwe is the FIRST and ONLY SADC country to REMOVE visa requirements for ALL (SADC) members.
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In South Africa our farmers fix and maintain thousands of kilometers of public roads because government can’t do it. It’s cheaper than replacing tyres every week. But it’s hard to do the state’s job without the state’s income
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As our family sits in complete darkness tonight; no motors, pumps, aircon or irrigation to break the silence, I wonder in which other country farmers manage to maintain the same levels of competitiveness under load shedding, farm attacks, crime,
#EwC
and state collapse as in SA?
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The truth about politics and our economy in too many countries in Africa
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KZN farmer Glen and his wife Vida Rafferty was last night brutally murdered on their farm near Normandien. How much longer can the
@MYANC
government ignore this phenomenon of farm attacks which has tainted the history of SA over the last 26 years?
@IanCameron23
@Saai_org
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Land grabbers burned a primary school and houses in defiance of a court order to evict all illegal occupiers on farms in Centurion, Pretoria. Some families fled the scene while most are protecting their property. They needed better police intervention
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It is often claimed that farm murders are merely an extension of the high rate of homicides in South Africa. It is not. Radicals call for these attacks, knowing that there will be no consequences for them. Like singing "Kill the farmer, kill the boer", or this 👇 on social media
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SA is heading towards a humanitarian disaster, not from Covid, but because of job losses, bankruptcies, poverty and hunger caused by the irrationally strict lockdown driven by ideology. On the back of state capture, corruption and downgrading, it’s a wrecking ball. Time to say NO
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In July 2 farmers were murdered in SA. In August the court ruled that the song “Kill the farmer, Kill the Boer” is not hate speech. In August we had 7 farm murders and in September we had 6. We need to destroy the ethos which is conducive to the killing of farmers
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4 Terrorists crossed the border from Zimbabwe to South Africa and attacked an elderly farmer 40km from Musina. They tortured and tied him to a border fence post before fleeing with his vehicle across the Limpopo river.
@Saai_org
is engaging the Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 embassy in Pretoria
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Here is a gentle reminder why expropriation without compensation is not an option
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In one of 3 violent farm attacks in South Africa yesterday, macadamia farmer Ettiene du Toit (53) of Mbombela was brutally murdered in his orchards while closing his irrigation valves. Nothing was stolen. This was the 7th farm murder in September, after 7 in August.
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Having a firearm within reach of his bed is what saved a KZN farmer when attacked in his house
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“To contain the virus” the SA government banned all exports and local trade of wine. When they realized the impact, they allowed exports again since 7 April. Yesterday they banned it again. Does that sound like they know what they are doing?
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The last 3 brutal farm murders in South Africa were reported in the British media, after a Falklands war veteran became part of the runaway statistics on farm attacks, which is still denied by the
@MYANC
government
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President Ramaphosa’s denial of farm murders at the 2018 UN General Assembly in NY has sparked an awareness of this horrific phenomenon both globally and locally. More English media now report on it. Social media is buzzing. Society is visibly mobilising
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Thank you to every farmer out there, large and small, black and white, and shop, small business, church and mosque who have sent food to hungry families! It’s the best investment we can now make in the stability and future of SA, and in the foundation of repair! ❤️
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Something is seriously wrong in the Kruger National Park. Shops and restaurants have burned in Letaba Camp and Berg-en-dal. Visitors complain that half of the accommodation can’t be used. Government is reluctant to answer in parliament
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Many agricultural sciences students and Afrikaans speaking students from the University of Pretoria and their parents called today about the EFF's violence on campus last night, threats to kill them and singing "Kill the farmer, kill the boer". No consequences of course
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What goes around, comes around. Land grabbed by Zimbabwe's former first family is being grabbed from them
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Thousands of farmers and farmworkers are occupying the Naboomspruit/Mookgopong in Limpopo in protest against farm attacks.
The murderers of Oom Alwyn van Zyl will be in court today.
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A farmer in Senekal, Freestate, lost 9 cattle to thieves who took parts of the meat and left the carcasses to rot. Tension between farmers and police is escalating because of alleged police involvement in stocktheft, and police action against farmers who apprehend thieves
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English media in South Africa is still reluctant to report on farm murders, which leaves the non-Afrikaans community and the world ignorant about the high number and the brutality of this horrific phenomenon. In the latest farm attack a 81y man was killed
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So Ghana has overtaken SA as the world’s Nr 1 gold producer, because of lower-cost mines, friendlier policies and investments in new development projects
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We’ve had 3 farm murders in less than a week, all of them marked by brutality and torture. Gideon Swart (52) was from Watervalboven, Frans Venter (68) was from Kroondal and Dr Jesse Coleman (72) was from Delmas
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Even the latest spike in farm murders, mostly on elderly people and accompanied by the most brutal torture, can’t move the South African government to recognise the problem or do something about it
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While we have mourned 24 farmers and their family members and workers who were murdered between April and June 2023, the police counted only 14. What hope can we have for efficient investigation, arrests, prosecution and justice?
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Whilst the SA government allows the EFF to keep singing "Kill the farmer, kill the boer" at it's rallies over the weekend, the 71 year old farmer Hugo van Sittert was killed between Keimoes and Kakemas in Northern Cape
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Zimbabwe had 7,5 mil ha of productive farmland before 2000. Then government grabbed 7,2 mil ha of it from 3200 white and 650 black farmers, and ran short on food ever since. Zimbabweans fled all over the world. Now they give 7,5mil ha to Arabs from Dubai
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On the Randridge small holdings in Randfontein a family was attacked as they arrived home last night. The father was killed with an AK47 and the mother was shot in the back, in front of the children. Nothing stolen.
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In SA government is still hell bent on expropriation without compensation as it shifts the blame for land reform failure to the willing seller principle to cover up corruption, nepotism and ineptitude
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Die Valke het 5 van die 8 lede van die SAPS Labybrand se Veediefstaleenheid vir veediefstal gearresteer, asook 2 veespekulante in Bloemfontein. Daar is op 2 ongelisensieerde vuurwapens beslag gelê. Dankie Valke!
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Two brutal attacks on farms in two days in KZN. The English media is silent on it
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Vuyani and Nolutando Zigana, a small holder farming family from Eastern Cape, were caretakers on a government farm for 12 years, waiting for a lease agreement. They got chucked out, and replaced by a politically connected wealthy businessman.
@Saai_org
now joined their battle
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Gert Joubert (66) who was attacked with a panga on his farm in Middelburg MP last Monday has died in hospital. 2 Suspects have been arrested in another farm attack today in Barberton, also Mpumalanga
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Sharing the platform in Senekal with Soks Masoka, Secretary General of
@AFASA_agri
who said to an angry crowd that all farmers are suffering from farm murders together, big and small, black and white. We all share the pain of the murder of Brendin Horner. Enough is enough!
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Clearly South Africans are increasingly fed-up with the outrageous Covid regulations, and struggle to restart their livelihoods. I fear the day they unify to say NO, for much more than mere control of the lockdown will slip out of government’s hands. They will not regain it soon!
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NB!!
Daar is bevestigde inligting ontvang dat boere uitgelok gaan word om betreders op n plaas te skiet om n nuwe rasgebaseerde momentum aan die huidige oproer te gee. Moenie daarvoor val nie! Skiet net uit noodweer! Boere kan nie bekostig om die fokuspunt te word nie
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Another farmer was murdered last night a few km North of Roetan in Limpopo while his wife and child were tied up
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The body of a farmer who was murdered in Biesiesvlei, Southern Freestate, on Sunday was discovered on his farm this morning.
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One of the major differences between farm murders and murders on other sectors of South African Society is that attacks on farmers are instigated and applauded. Some activists are calling for these murders and torture, and there is no consequences for doing so
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I can’t understand that the
@SAPoliceService
, who had prior notice of the EFF’s terror attacks on Clicks stores, was not prepared to deal with it, that the arson, looting and destruction happened in their presence and that no one has been arrested. It leaves SA deeply concerned
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This happened to the Zimbabwean dollar when their government did what the
@MYANC
now threatens to do with expropriation without compensation. The economy of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 hasn’t recovered yet
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South African farmers applying for export licenses have been asked by government for their Black Economic Empowerment certificates.
@Saai_org
members want the department to clarify how black partnerships and co-ownership will be forced on family farms?
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After 7 decades the school on my farm in Limpopo will be closing its doors permanently this month. There are not enough learners in our valley anymore. The 16% increase in minimum wages for farm workers took its toll
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Aan die Weskus kook dit tussen die boere en die EFF, wat eis dat
1 Geen buitelanders op plase mag werk nie
2 Alle plaaswerkers met taxi's aangery moet word
3 Die EFF by alle aanstellings van plaaswerkers betrek moet word
Die
@Saai_org
@afriforum
groepering het uitgestap
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Expropriation without compensation is completely out of line with the property clause of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. That makes it a crime against humanity
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Dear
@MYANC
, make an about turn on the centralization of food parcels, like you’ve done on BEE criteria for emergency aid. Say you’ve been misquoted, out of context or blame it on rouge officials for now. The world is frowning upon it, and already the UN is watching us closely
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In 2023 South Africa had 193 farm attacks and 50 farm murders.
Gauteng 30 attacks, 11 murders
NW 33-6
Limpopo 26-2
Mpumalanga 18-8
KZN 27-5
Freestate 17-6
NC 2-0
WC 26-8
EC 14-4
In 2022 we had 43 farm murders and 166 farm attacks.
@Saai_org
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In South Africa the shop looting, truck burning, “kill-the-farmers”-chanting protesters are very vocal, very visible. They feature on TV screens across the world. Investors and boards of companies react silently with their feet. Capital is shy as a deer 🦌 You scare it, it runs!
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The
@MYANC
today in parliament decided that the Battle of Isaldwana (which until today was recorded in history books to have occurred in 1879) actually happened before the Battle of Blood River (1838) to fit their narrative of stolen land
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Store vol voer is die naweek in die droogtegeteisterde Oudshoorn aan die brand gesteek deur kriminele wat gedurende die Covid-grendeltyd deur Ramaphosa vrygelaat is
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5 farm attacks in the last 4 days:
22/7 Mooirivier - 2 people tortured and robbed (1 in serious condition) by 5 attackers,
22/7 Paarl - 4 attackers robbed and assaulted a family during loadshedding
23/7 Dalton KZN - woman tortured with boiling water and robbed by 5 attackers
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Kenya 🇰🇪 has lost 85% of its game since implementing a no hunting policy in 1977. In the same period South Africa 🇿🇦 saw a 1300% increase in game numbers because wildlife ranchers breed and conserve it for hunting
@WRSAtweets
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Abiding by their demand that all food aid by farmers and other civil society organizations (such as our
@Saai_org
Against Hunger Campaign) must be channeled through government, will betray hungry families of all races across SA. Yes, we will smuggle food!
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n Groot hupstoot vir plaasveiligheid deur
@4KobusWiese
van Wiesenhof by Nampo Kaap - Baie dankie vir nog n reuse skenking!
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Over the last 25 years there has been a n average of one farm attack every second day and a farm murder every 5 days in SA. Since the court ruled in Sept 2022 that the “Kill the farmer” song is not hate speech the numbers escalated. Here is some data:
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It’s been a dark Sunday with four farm attacks; one murder (Jan Kempdorp) and one rape case
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In one of the 3 farm attacks in South Africa yesterday (Welkom, Witrivier and Delmas) an 80-year old farmer was killed
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Thank you to my workers, my neighbours and especially their workers who joined hands to catch avocado thieves in my orchards today. Last week we lost a truck load. The fruit is not mature and will not ripen
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A 12-year old boy was killed with a shotgun in a farm attack in Bapsfontein, Gauteng, by 5 assailants in 2 utility vehicles this afternoon
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Surely, any government effort to keep citizens from privately engaging in emergency food aid to starving families, or to frustrate the process while their own efforts are riddled with corruption and racial discrimination, must be a crime against humanity
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South Africa's macadamia harvest is 77 660 tons, that is 8 820 tons more than the 2022 harvest
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Poultry farmer Hemmilton Khambana, 54, was murdered on Mpheleng main road, in Dennilton, Limpopo. The assailants robbed him before fleeing, leaving Khambana dead on the scene.
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A middle aged man was shot and killed on a farm in Balmoral, Mpumalanga last night. His wife and a neighbour were tied up and tortured with iron pipes. One of the 4 farm murderers, who accidentally shot himself, was apprehended but later died.
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Statistics on farm murders in SA shows an increase, especially in Free State.
English media is still not reporting on it.
Calls for farmers to be murdered have also increased on social media and at political gatherings since the notorious hate speech trial
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3 People were shot in a farm attack near Alldays between Weipe and Linton in Limpopo, one still in a critical condition. 5 Foreign nationals were arrested and a sixth is on the run
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Dit is net in SA waar jy n hofbevel moet kry om kriminele te verbied om jou dood te maak en om wette te gehoorsaam, en om die polisie te dwing om wet en orde te handhaaf. Daarna moet jy weer hof toe om die polisie vir minagting aanspreeklik te hou.
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Die boere van Paul Roux sê as Min Bheki Cele iets gedoen het aan die verslag oor korrupsie en wanadministrasie in die plaaslike polisiestasie, dan was die bende wat Brendin Horner vermoor het, nie vry om dit te doen nie
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South Africa is the biggest producer of macadamia nuts 🌰 in the world, producing 30% of global supply and 50% of all exports. Golden Macs is the biggest processor in SA, supplying +/- 10% of global trade
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Dit brand in die Vrystaat/Noordwes. 3 Groot wegholbrande in die Vredefortkoepel, Parys/Vereniging en Parys/Potch. Mense, vee en weiding, infrastruktuur en heinings in gevaar
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3 farm murders in 24 hours: Cookhouse, Eastern Cape where one suspect was apprehended for the murder of a farm manager, and a couple (76 & 72) was murdered in Ohrigstad, Limpopo. They were burned
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Op die keper beskou is die boeregemeenskap in Groblersdal ontwrig. Jongmense het seergekry. Die polisie se reputasie is ernstig gekwes. Die integriteit van die landdroskantoor het onomkeerbaar in die slag gebly. Gelykheid voor die reg is onder beleg
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Whiskey Kgabo, a leading
@Saai_org
member in Letaba, had 180ha mango orchards burned down by farm invaders outside Tzaneen. While we can’t substitute the police’s job to bring the identified arsonists to book, his fellow farmers already started planning to build back better
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Four farm attacks this week: Musina, Hendrina, Pietermaritzburg, Hermanus. 3 Farmers wounded in 3 incidents,
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A young farmer was shot and killed in the presence of his family at Saasveld, George (Southern Cape) last night. Two attackers. This is the second farm attack in George in one week
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Government confirmed that rhino
populations in the Kruger National Park have plummeted to 3,529 white rhinos and 268 black rhinos, a reduction of 67% for white– (from 10,621 in 2011) and 35% for black rhinos – from 415 in 2013. SA urgently needs to legalise/control trade in horns
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A sincere thanks to all the farm watches and farmer volunteers who patrol and safeguard our rural communities in these days of turmoil. violence, arson and looting in the Eastern parts of South Africa
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Ek het lanklaas so veilig gevoel! Tussen 2 legendariese springbokslotte,
@skalabrak
en
@4KobusWiese
op Laingsburg
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A 69 year old farmer was murdered on his farm in Upper Tongaat, KZN. SAPS arrested 2 suspects in possession of illegal firearms and the victim's belongings, both out on parole.
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We meet tonight with a delegation of the EU Parliament in Pretoria, discussing crime, farm attacks, expropriation without compensation, mother tongue education, competitiveness, poor service delivery and how we fill the gaps left by state failure
@Saai_org
@solidariteit
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The new minimum wages for agriculture is turning out to be a humanitarian crisis. Farmers can simply not afford it. More jobs and livelihoods are lost than what government can replace with social grants. Shanty towns in rural areas are growing out of government’s service capacity
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Today 13 years ago the murder on the Potgieter family of Lindley showed the world why farm attacks are not a mere extension of runaway crime statistics in South Africa
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An elderly farmer in his late 70’s has been brutally murdered and his wife has been stabbed numerous times in her chest in a farm attack in Muldersdrift, Gauteng this afternoon
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A growing number of South Africans are existentially disappointed with the constitution’s apparent failure to protect their cultures, languages, minority rights, property rights, rights to good governance and equality before the law
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