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“President Zuma is clearly ill-informed bout farm murders if he says that race does not play a role in farm murders. Research had already in 2003 shown that at least 2% of farm murders are racially driven. It can however not be said with certainty what the current precise percentage is of farm murders which are racially driven as criminals do not easily acknowledge that the crimes are racially driven. Usually it is said that these acts are ordinary criminality. The reality is that the cruelty with which the farm murders are perpetrated attests that it is not ordinary criminality,” Mr. Pieter Groenewald, the FF Plus’ chief spokesperson on Police, says.

“The president should firstly tell us how many farm murders have taken place since 2007 for him to be able to prove his statement. If it is taken into consideration that the figure for murders of farmers are approximately 313 per 100 000 of the population and the figure for murder of ordinary people is 32 per 100 000, it is clear that farmers are a specific target. If Zuma wants to resolve farm murders he has to concede to the request of the Freedom Front Plus, which the party has been asking of government since 2007, to make crime statistics on farm murders available and to declare farm murders as a priority crime,” Groenewald added.