AfriForum requests opportunity to address Parliamentary Committees on farm attacks  

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today sent letters to the Portfolio Committees on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Police, as well as the Select Committee on Security and Justice, requesting that it be allowed to appear before them to share the organisation’s information on farm attacks and murders. This follows the decision by Baleka Mbete, Speaker of the National Assembly, to allow a debate on farm attacks and murders to take place in the National Assembly.

“AfriForum has been at the forefront of the fight against farm attacks and murders and has, through years of research and interviews with victims, their family and their friends, managed to gather valuable information and insights that we feel the members of these Committees must be made aware of,” says Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum.

AfriForum believes that Parliament owes it to the victims, their families and the South African farming community to allow the organisation to voice its concerns.

“We hope to receive a reply from the respective Secretariats without delay, after which we will make the necessary arrangements to address the respective Committees” says Roets.

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today sent letters to the Portfolio Committees on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Police, as well as the Select Committee on Security and Justice, requesting that it be allowed to appear before them to share the organisation’s information on farm attacks and murders. This follows the decision by Baleka Mbete, Speaker of the National Assembly, to allow a debate on farm attacks and murders to take place in the National Assembly.

“AfriForum has been at the forefront of the fight against farm attacks and murders and has, through years of research and interviews with victims, their family and their friends, managed to gather valuable information and insights that we feel the members of these Committees must be made aware of,” says Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum.

AfriForum believes that Parliament owes it to the victims, their families and the South African farming community to allow the organisation to voice its concerns.

“We hope to receive a reply from the respective Secretariats without delay, after which we will make the necessary arrangements to address the respective Committees” says Roets.