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Legal township establishment processes exist to ensure that urban development is safe, serviced and sustainable.

Behind Kleinfontein and other illegally established residential areas

Kleinfontein is just one of about 17 other illegally established housing developments in Tshwane

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu debunks Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims in quarterly crime report

The statistics from the first three months of the year show an overall drop in crime but gender-based violence continued to be a concern

​Data-driven safety plan aims for rapid violent crime prevention in the Western Cape

SAPS bungle farm murder cases as much as other investigations

Priority must be given to crime detection and intelligence work, not just visible policing

South Africa has a low rate of arrests and convictions in farm attack and murder cases despite a national police policy to fight crime in rural areas, a report released on Tuesday has revealed.

Report decries low convictions for farm murders and attacks

The AfriForum report says 95% of serious and violent rural crimes committed over the past four years remain unsolved

Although these elections have a sense of anxiety and tension to them, it is an indication of the country’s evolving democracy and society’s changing priorities over time. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Combat destructive nihilism to build an egalitarian South African society

To overcome negativity, and draw citizens back into politics, we need to recapture the viability of class struggle which can usher in real change

The Economic Freedom Fighters provincial leaders are advocating for the removal of deputy positions, potentially sidelining Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (above) and Poppy Mailola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Afriforum at equality court: ‘Kill the Boer’ song encourages farm attacks

Lobby group’s Ernst Roets tells court he can’t “think of a mainstream politician, even from the ruling party, who has spoken against farm murders”

The hallucinatory bunker of the white right

The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives

AfriForum’s Ian Cameron told Sky News that there have been more than 344 attacks on farms and and about 45 farm murders since the beginning of 2018. (Deaan Vivier/Netwerk 24/Gallo)
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AfriForum decries SA farm murders down under

The group’s visit comes amid a controversial Australian senate motion condemning ‘anti-white racism’

Trump has made Iran a favourite target since his rapprochement with nuclear-armed North Korea. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

South African politicians resist Trump’s ‘falsehoods’ about South Africa

Deputy president David Mabuza says the US president’s comments are a ‘distortion’

(Tiro Ramatlhatse/Sowetan/Gallo Images)

Coligny murder: Farmworkers back in court

Pieter Doorewaard and Philip Schutte are accused of killing Matlhomola Moshoeu after they allegedly caught Moshoeu stealing a sunflower

‘Nil compensation’ is a legally and constitutionally sound tool that parliament has chosen to use to achieve legitimate governmental ends

Farm murder rate lowest in 20 years

AgriSA has warned that it was essential to have accurate statistics around farm attacks to avoid making unfounded claims

Peter Dutton has been described as solid

​DIRCO slams special refugee status for white South Africans

South African government says it’s “regrettable” that Australia’s home affairs minister wants to give special treatment to white South African farmers

Traditional leaders

Agri SA lambasts police for inaccurate reporting on farm worker murder

Agri SA lashed out at the police for reporting inaccurate details to the media around the brutal shooting of a farm worker in Krugersdorp.

The farmer fled the scene

Worker shot dead by farm owner for allegedly stealing tractor

Details of the alleged murder were still vague.

Kodwa says the government was committed to dealing with crime.

All lives matter, not just whites – ANC on #BlackMonday march

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said all lives mattered.

South Africa has a low rate of arrests and convictions in farm attack and murder cases despite a national police policy to fight crime in rural areas, a report released on Tuesday has revealed.

South Africa’s farm murder statistics are more political than accurate

The farm murder rate has been used by many as evidence that the white minority is being victimised and opp​ressed

Land reform can assist in creating more employment-intensive farming systems.

State must ‘step up’ to combat farm attacks

A new Human Rights Commission report on farm attacks highlights the lack of state involvement in combating crimes that affect farmers and farmworkers.

Ernst Roets says that the reason why black South Africans are having a hard time getting by is because South African government has largely deserted them.

Seven ways in which our government abuses black people

The real problem between black and white South Africans is not white people’s attitude, but the government’s desertion of black people.

Farm workers Bonginkosi and Sam Mhlongo

Story of an African farm murder

In July 2010, three people were brutally murdered on Sherwood Farm in KZN. But what really happened that night only unravelled in the courtroom.

David Dlali’s death was first presumed to have been motivated by politics or robbery.

Farm murder might be a family affair

As new details emerge, ANC politician David Dlali’s death is not as clear cut as it first seemed. Phillip de Wet reports.