Farm attacks
Mayor Van Eeden confirms he has not visited Nkqubela township following violence
South African Human Rights Commissioner Chris Nissen criticised local government for a lack of representation.
The man was shot dead, his wife injured, and his son wounded during a robbery last night their farmhouse.
The movement unite against farm murders descended on the union buildings in a go-slow demonstration on the N14 Highway to Pretoria before making their way to the seat of government.
There are growing calls in the Eastern Cape for police to ramp up safety in the rural communities following the murder of 79-year-old cattle farmer, John Viedge.
This follows the murder of cattle farmer John Viedge in Nqangarhu, formerly known as Maclear, on Sunday.
This comes after a 79-year-old farmer was shot and killed at his home at Highfield farm during the early hours of Sunday.
While there was a decline in the number of farm attacks in the 2020/21 financial year compared to the previous period, there's been an increase in murders, said the group.
Two farmworkers have reportedly filed assault charges against Dawie Steyn, who can be seen on the clip swearing and punching one them.
Five suspects, armed with knives, ambushed the victims when they broke into their farmhouse over the weekend.
The pair are alleged to have stabbed and strangled Horner in October during what is believed to be a stock theft incident.
This emerged at a rural safety imbizo in Bethlehem on Thursday organised by Police Minister Bheki Cele.
Police Minister Bheki Cele held a rural safety imbizo in the Bethlehem community hall to address the issue of farm attacks and murders in the area.
Pieter Hills was shot dead at his Swartpan farm just outside Hennenman in the Free State early on Friday.
Four suspects were arrested just hours after Pieter Hills and his son, Eddie, were attacked. Hills was shot in the head and his son stabbed in the back.
Africa Check unpacks the claim made by DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard that the number of commercial farmers in South Africa has fallen from 120,000 to 38,000.
The Addo area has been the scene of 14 out of the province's 74 farm attacks that occurred during the 2019/20 fiscal year.
Members of the EFF and ANC as well as farmers from the Senekal area gathered outside the magistrates court on 16 October 2020 where the two men accused of the murder of farm manager Brendin Horner made their second court appearance.
Hundreds of people protested at the Union Buildings in the capital on Saturday under the banner "Unite against farm murders" and called for police to do more to prevent farm attacks.