The media and other interested parties are herewith invited to attend a presentation with the theme:  “Genocide and hate murders in South African agricultural communities’, on Friday, 5 December 2015 in Pretoria.  The presentation will be delivered by Dr. Greg Stanton, founding president of Genocide Watch.

Dr. Stanton was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, worked against Apartheid with the United Democratic Front in 1989 – 1990 as a Fulbright Professor of Law at the University of Swaziland, and was the author of the UN Resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1994.  He was also the legal advisor to the government of Cambodia and drafted the rules for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.  He founded Genocide Watch and the International Alliance to End Genocide in 1999.  The Alliance now has fifty member organizations in 24 countries.

Genocide Watch was the first international human rights organization to protest the murders and hate crimes committed against farmers in South Africa.  Since his research trip in July 2012, Dr. Stanton said that hate crimes against Afrikaner farmers have not declined.  The murder rate of the whole South African population remains at over 31 per 100,000. The murder rate of farmers, including Afrikaner farmers, is four times as high.  The Institute of Security Studies estimated the farm murder rate at 120 per 100,000 in 2013, and the Transvaal Agricultural Union, using verified names of victims, placed the figure at 130 per 100,000 in 2013, one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Details of the event as follows:

DATE               :           Friday, 5 December 2014
TIME                :           10:00
PLACE             :           Transvaal Agricultural Union Head Office, James Avenue 194 , Silverton, Pretoria


For more information contact:

Anton Alberts
082 391 3117