Roets - Kill the boer: government complicity in South Africas brutal farm murders

Copyright Published edition Kraal Uitgewers Copyright Text AfriForum, Ernst Roets

First Edition, 2018, Kraal Uitgewers

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This book is dedicated to the memory of

Wilmien Potgieter

Ephesians 6:12

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. A land of sorrow
2. Remoteness: Unique circumstances
3. Remoteness: Unique circumstances

ABBREVIATIONS

AFASA African Farmers Association of South Africa

AFU African Farmers Union

Agri SA Agriculture South Africa

AI Amnesty International

ANC African National Congress

ANCWL African National Congress Womens League

ANI AfriForum Research Institute

(Afrikaans: AfriForum Navorsingsinstituut)

AWB Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

(English: Afrikaner Resistance Movement)

BLF Black First Land First

CIAC Crime Information Analysis Centre

CoGTA Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

COPE Congress of the People

COSATU Congress of South African Trade Unions

CP Conservative Party

CPF Community Policing Forum

CPUT Cape Peninsula University of Technology

DA Democratic Alliance

DAC Department of Arts and Culture

DAFF Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

DL Department of Labour

DLA Department of Land Affairs

DIRCO Department of International Relations and Cooperation

DP Department of Police

DRDLR Department of Rural Development and Land Reform

EFF Economic Freedom Fighters

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FF Plus Freedom Front Plus

HRW Human Rights Watch

HSRC Human Sciences Research Council

ICC International Criminal Court

ICD Independent Complaints Directorate

ICJ International Court of Justice

ICTY International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

IFP Inkatha Freedom Party

IJR Institute of Justice and Reconciliation

ILO International Labour Organization

IPID Independent Police Investigative Directorate

IRCT International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

IRR Institute of Race Relations

ISS Institute for Security Studies

ITI In Transformation Initiative

JCPS Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster

JOINTS Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure

JSE Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Kwanalu KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union

LPM Landless Peoples Movement

MK Umkhonto we Sizwe

MMC Member of the Mayoral Committee

MP Member of Parliament

MSM Mainstream media

NAFU National African Farmers Union

NCPS National Crime Prevention Strategy

NDP National Development Plan

NDR National Democratic Revolution

NGO Non-governmental organisation

NIA National Intelligence Agency

NOCOC National Operational Coordinating Committee

NPA National Prosecuting Authority

NP National Party

NRSS National Rural Safety Strategy

NWU North-West University

PFP Progressive Federal Party

PRVG Promotion of the Rights of Vulnerable Groups

RPP Rural Protection Plan

SAAU South African Agricultural Union

SACCI South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry

SAHRC South African Human Rights Commission

SAICE South African Institution of Civil Engineering

SAJEI The South African Judicial Education Institute

SANDF South African National Defence Force

SAPS South African Police Service

SASCO South African Students Congress

SC Senior Counsel

SRC Student Representative Council

SRI Solidarity Research Institute

SSA State Security Agency

TAU SA Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa

UCT University of Cape Town

UJ University of Johannesburg

UN United Nations

UNCAT United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UP University of Pretoria

US Stellenbosch University

USA United States of America

VOC Vereenighde Oost-Indische Compagnie

WFDY World Federation of Democratic Youth

WFO World Farmers Organisation

Wits University of the Witwatersrand

ZAR Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek

(English: South African Republic)

LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES AND MAPS

Figures

1. SAPS data on farm attacks and farm murders: 2001/20022006/2007
2. SAPS data on farm attacks and farm murders: 1996/19972016/2017
3. TAU SA data on farm attacks and farm murders: 19902016Total number of murders committed in South Africa: 2007/20082016/2017
4. South African murder rate, calculated as the number of people murdered per 100 000 per year
5. Murder rate per 100 000 of selected countries, compared to that of South Africa
6. Employment in agriculture: 20012016
7. Agricultures triple challenge
8. Farm attacks per province: 19902012
9. Farm attacks per province: 2010/20112015/2016, according to the SAPS with total number of attacks over period per province indicated
10. Farm murders per province: 2010/20112015/2016, according to the SAPS
11. Monthly distribution of farm attacks: 19982001 (CIAC)
12. Daily distribution of farm attacks: 20002001 (CIAC)
13. Hourly distribution of farm attacks: 2001 (CIAC)
14. Most prevalent crimes committed, indicated as a proportion of all farm attacks in 2001
15. Division of victims (19902012) according to age groups
16. Analysis of murder victims by TAU SA
17. Benefits to permanent farm workers in the Western Cape
18. Comparing: on-farm houses and off-farm houses in the Western Cape
19. Farm murders per week during 1993
20. Farm murders per week during 2010
21. Media reporting and racial characteristics (Afrikaans and English media)
22. Media reporting and racial characteristics (Afrikaans media)
23. Media reporting and racial characteristics (English media)
24. Reporting of known incidents, according to race
25. Average media mentions by number of deaths (white-on-black)
26. Average media mentions by number of deaths (black-on-white)
27. Average media mentions by number of deaths (black-on-black)
28. Mention of race by media outlet
29. Names not mentioned in the media though known, according to race
30. Media illustrations of victim or perpetrator, according to race