Various civilian organisations and opposition parties will tomorrow during a joint media conference in Centurion take a stance against farm murders and make a plea to the South African government to incisively intervene to prioritise this crisis.

The organisations will also commit themselves to participate in the protest march against farm murders that is being planned for Saturday, 25 November, when they will march from the Pretoria Art Museum to the Union Buildings to hand a memorandum to the State President.

The organisations that will be represented at this media conference include the civil rights organisation AfriForum, the trade union Solidarity, the agricultural union TAU SA, as well as the opposition parties namely the DA, the FF Plus and Cope.  

Since the beginning of the year, at least 80 farm murders were committed.

The details for this media conference are as follows:

Date:              Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Time:              9:00
Venue:            AfriForum Building, 58 Union Avenue, Kloofsig, Centurion
RSVP:            Mariska Batt (084 299 6928)

The protest march will start Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 10:00 at the Pretoria Art Museum. Protestors will then march to the Union Buildings.

Ernst Roets
Deputy CEO
AfriForum
Cell: 082 264 0953 / 064 752 7663 (assistant)
Email: ernst@afriforum.co.za
Twitter: @ErnstRoets