Post by cjm on Dec 8, 2016 8:02:05 GMT
Farm murders and attacks in 2016 at seven-year high
Farm murders and attacks in 2016 are at a seven-year high‚ with 64 murders and 334 attacks reported so far this year already.
The shocking statistics‚ which are only for the 11 months ending November with a month still to go‚ were released on Wednesday by the civil rights organisation AfriForum and the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAU SA) ‚ who described the rise for the sixth-consecutive year as “disturbing”.
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Farm murders and attacks in 2016 are at a seven-year high‚ with 64 murders and 334 attacks reported so far this year already.
The shocking statistics‚ which are only for the 11 months ending November with a month still to go‚ were released on Wednesday by the civil rights organisation AfriForum and the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAU SA) ‚ who described the rise for the sixth-consecutive year as “disturbing”.
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