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Farm murders at a 20-year low, AgriSA reports
"In response to the report, AfriForum’s deputy CEO, Ernst Roets, told
The Citizen the figures stated do not gel with those released by the police, or with AfriForum’s own records of farm attacks.
“AfriForum is in possession of more names of people who were murdered in farm attacks than the total number which has been provided by the police,” he said.
“The number released now also doesn’t correspond with the police’s previous figures. According to the former police commissioner, there were 74 farm murders and 638 attacks in 2016-17.
“According to the new figures, there were 66 murders and 478 farm attacks. That is a significant difference.”
Roets also refers to “dark figures”, which are farm attacks which aren’t reported to police, saying it is impossible to determine how large that number is.
“If we look at the under-reporting of violent crimes, one can deduce that the gap is increasing.”
Roets says AfriForum believes farm murders to be an extremely complex crime and that it wouldn’t be possible to reduce the motives to simply one or two reasons.
He does, however, believe political climate and utterances are contributing factors."