Reint Dykema

Terugvoer oor hofsaak teen verdagtes wat boer se ore afgesny het: @afriforum het vandag die hofverrigtinge in Ventersdorp saam met lede van die gemeenskap bygewoon. In die video word die boodskap gewys wat AfriForum buite die hof oorgedra het. AfriForum veroordeel president Cyril Ramaphosa omdat hy, ondanks die gruwelike marteling van ’n boer, steeds versuim om hom teen hierdie aanval uit te spreek. Hy weier ook steeds volstrek om die “Kill the Boer”-oproep tot etniese geweld te veroordeel en plaasmoorde tot prioriteitsmisdade te verklaar. Die verdagtes het daarna in die hof verskyn en die saak is tot 13 November vir hul borgaansoek uitgestel. Die staat het reeds aangedui dat hy borgtog gaan teenstaan. Die verdagtes bly in aanhouding. Daar is ’n sterk saak teen die verdagtes danksy kapt. Bonita Dry en haar span by die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD), wat die saak onverpoosd en doelgerig ondersoek het.

We are here today with members of the community at the Ventersdorp Magistrate’s Court to express our outrage at the brutal torture of a North West farmer, Donovan Marx, whose ears were among other things cut off. The criminals arrested in connection with the attack are appearing in this court today. @afriforum condemns @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa’s failure to speak out against this attack and his continued outright refusal to condemn the “Kill the Boer” call for ethnic violence and to declare farm murders priority crimes. Given the failure of Ramaphosa and the government to act, communities will have to step up their efforts to ensure their own safety. For this reason, AfriForum has already established 178 neighbourhood and farm watches. However, the circumstances demand that we all work together to do even more. plaasmoorde.co.za

AfriForum holds @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa and other ANC leaders in government directly responsible for South Africa’s removal from AGOA and the job losses that will result. According to @afriforum, President Ramaphosa and his government’s foreign policy, as well as his announcement on 23 January 2025 that he had signed the Expropriation Act into law, directly prompted President Donald Trump’s announcement just ten days later, on 2 February, that the US would take action against South Africa. AGOA sets explicit requirements for the protection of private property rights and stipulates that beneficiary countries may not undermine US national security or foreign policy interests. As early as April 2024, AfriForum sent a letter to President Ramaphosa warning him of the risks that the Expropriation Act, which allows for expropriation without compensation, posed to South Africa’s trade relations. Ramaphosa did not even respond to the letter, and the country is now reaping the bitter fruits of his and other ANC leaders’ reckless policies and actions. Over the past year, AfriForum, @solidariteit and the Solidarity Movement have put forward comprehensive proposals during discussions with the South African Presidency in an effort to resolve the dispute with the US. Solidarity also held extensive discussions with the US in an attempt to save AGOA. Unfortunately, the Presidency disregarded these efforts, and ordinary South Africans are now paying the price. Ramaphosa and his colleagues in the ANC leadership have placed their own ideology and party interests above the interests of ordinary South Africans. news24.com/business/economy/…