Latest Farm Murder Crime Statistics 2019 (Video)

The one thing I've never heard anyone dispute about South Africa is that crime is a problem. When it comes to rape, murder, and other violent crimes, South Africa has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the world.

Worse, farm attacks and farm murders are one of the biggest problems in South Africa. Why would I say this?

It's simple. Destroy your farmers, and you destroy your food supply. I have to question what these people who target farmers are thinking. Being a farmer in South Africa is one of the most dangerous professions in the world.

One of the most important things I've learned in my research is that Afriforum has been repeatedly criticized for their stance, as well as their statistics. Afriforum gets its statistics from the police, which is a primary source.

Let me mention here that there are two types of information that journalists and writers use. One is of much higher quality than the other but both are valuable.

The first is the primary source material. Primary source material is original documents. Government statistics, original documents, autobiographies, journals, things like that are all primary sources.

Secondary sources are things like articles, like the one I'm writing. Biographies are another example where primary source materials are used to create a secondary source.

This is why it is so important that you do your own due diligence.

With that said, there were five important articles I found from 2019 you need to read. These articles demonstrate clearly that crime is a huge problem in South Africa, and the ANC led government has failed to address the problem.

As I mentioned before, Afriforum compiles its statistics from the police. Police reports, like all government documents, are a primary source of information.

Again, even though Afriforum has been highly criticized for its work on trying to stop the farm murders, I see no other agenda here other than Afriforum trying to stop the farm murders. Unlike the ANC, which thrives on propaganda (all leftist organizations do), Afriforum seems to be committed to releasing the truth.

In this article from the South African, Afriforum presents six important facts related to farm attacks and murders. For those who are interested, Afriforum also offers safety training to help farmers protect themselves.

Here’s how many farm murders happened in 2019 – according to AfriForum

AfriForum have conducted their own independent research into the scourge of farm murders in South Africa. The lobby group, who have led several campaigns against the violence in rural communities, confirmed that the number of killings in confirmed farm attacks has increased to 57 in the last calendar year.

In an article from The Citizen, it states that although farm murders may have decreased, the number of farm attacks has increased over the last decade.

Farm attacks increase 60% in last decade – TLU SA

The number of farm attack murders may have dropped, but ‘it is 5,148 times families and farmworkers feared for their lives during a farm attack’.

In an opinion piece from the Tri-State Livestock News, the author lays out the case for why crime is a problem and presents the statistics on crime in South Africa. What's important about statistics is that this is information that can be verified.

Guest Opinion: Genocide against white farmers, S. Africa

South Africa has long had a serious problem with crime. The murder rate is 36 per 100,000, meaning 57 people are murdered each day, placing South Africa’s homicide rate just behind that of countries now at war. Of the ten worst precincts for murder, seven are in the province of Western Cape. Nyanga has the highest murder rate in South Africa, helping make Cape Town the second most murderous city in the world and the crime capital of South Africa. The situation there is so bad that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has deployed troops to assist the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Cape Flats area, a gang-dominated suburb of Cape Town.

Although the other articles I presented were written in 2019, this article was written in 2020. The TimesLive reported that the Farmers' Union was hopeful that farm murders were on the decline. This is based on reports that there were no farm murders in January 2020.

Farmers' union hopeful about decline in farm attacks and murders in SA

Commercial farmers’ union TLU SA said it hoped a reported decline in farm attacks and murders - with no killings in January 2020 - would continue for the rest of the year.

The union said there were 20 farm attacks but no murders in January.

This was in contrast to 35 farm attacks and six murders registered in January 2019, and the 39 farm attacks and five murders recorded in January 2018.

In another article from the South African, one of the political parties, the Democratic Alliance (DA), presented a plan to help stop the farm murders in South Africa. This article also includes some of the statistics related to farm murders in South Africa.

Farm murders: DA’s six-point plan to stop brutal attacks revealed

The rural communities of South Africa have been living in fear, as dozens of farm murders are recorded across the country each year. Despite only accounting for 0.2% of all homicides in Mzansi, the brutal crimes are spooking farmers – and even prompted Donald Trump into Tweeting about the situation last year.

Do I think that the DA's plan will work? I don't know. It isn't for me to decide since I'm American. I believe that all South Africans have the right to self-determination. What that means is that it was wrong for the United States to interfere in the politics of South Africa during apartheid. Apartheid was an internal conflict. It was up to the people of South Africa to determine what form of government they would have and how they would live.

One of the places I looked for information on crime in South Africa is YouTube. Unfortunately, there really wasn't any information available for the end of 2019.

I did find this video, and like many other videos I have found, it points to the fact that crime is definitely a problem in South Africa. The Communist-led ANC government is ill-equipped to deal with the problem.



Regardless of which side of the political aisle you stand on in South Africa, crime in South Africa is definitely a problem. South African farmers are the most persecuted minority in the world. They work in the most dangerous occupation on the planet.

Murdering farmers in South Africa will eventually lead to starvation in South Africa if it isn't stopped. South Africa was once the breadbasket of Africa. Now it's necessary for South Africa to import food.

So you're probably wondering why I am involved in this issue now since I don't believe that the United States should interfere in the internal politics of another country. It's really very simple.

People are dying. I still believe that the people of South Africa have a right to self-determination. I also believe in individual rights, a fundamental principle of the U.S. Constitution. The white minority, the colored minority, and all other minorities under the ANC led government have been severely oppressed.

I am also a Cold War veteran. I hate all leftist ideology whether it's Communism, socialism, progressivism, liberalism, NAZIism, fascism, or whatever other name has been applied to it. The rights of the individual must come first.

No one deserves to be murdered because of race or for any reason for that matter. Each of us has a right to live out our lives in peace and freedom. Murdering the innocent for past perceived wrongs isn't the answer.

Murder is the ultimate crime because it deprives a person of the fundamental right to life. If South Africa is to progress, then the crime rate has to be reduced.

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