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'Farmers four times more likely to be murdered than average citizens'─── SABRINA DEAN 08:08 Mon, 15 Sep 2014
Johannesburg - Farmers are four times more likely to be murdered than average citizens.
This is according to Afriforum's deputy executive head Ernst Roets, speaking ahead of an SA Human Rights Commission hearing into farm murders that gets underway in Johannesburg from today.
Roets says farm murders are a unique type of crime and therefore require a unique approach.
Roets says other unique characteristics include the role of farmers in the country in terms of food security and job creation, as well as the fact that farms are remote and reaction times of police and neighbours are therefore much slower.
Roets says other unique characteristics include the role of farmers in the country in terms of food security and job creation, as well as the fact that farms are remote and reaction times of police and neighbours are therefore much slower.
He says it is critical that government realizes farm murders are a crisis in the country, that statistics are released and that specialist farm protection units are established within the SAPS.
Sabrina Dean/OFM News
Sabrina Dean/OFM News
Ernst Roets:
