Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦
@ConCaracal
Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer” – a chant the president refuses to condemn as hateful, wrong, and unacceptable, and even defends.
Farm murders are the only violent crime the existence of is flat-out denied by the president of South Africa. “There are no killing of white farmers in South Africa” – President Ramaphosa (direct quote).
Farm murders are the only violent crime that some journalists make jokes about on social media.
Farm murders are the only violent crime where those who raise awareness about the issue are viciously lied about, insulted, mocked, slandered, intimidated, and some organisations, such as AfriForum and Solidarity, are even investigated by the police for “High Treason”.
Farm murders are the only violent crime where activist journalists go out of their way to try to destroy the lives of those private citizens who dare try to bring international awareness to the issue online. If you gain significant traction online with your farm murder activism anonymously, major media companies will track you down and publish your name, the names of your loved ones, as well as where you and even your elderly parents live.
Farm murders are the only violent crime where the knee-jerk reaction of some is to immediately dismiss it by shouting South Africa’s general murder statistics into the faces of those concerned. For perspective, they don’t subject activists against gender-based violence to the same dismissals.
Farm murders are the only violent crime of a unique nature that the SA government refuses to classify under National Priority Offences – unique crimes that get a specialised counter strategy – as outlined by the Police Act. Rhino poaching, GBV, gang violence, political assassinations, and cash-in-transit heists are examples of crimes already categorized under Priority Crimes.
Farm murders are the only violent crime where the government refuses FREE money from the United States to tackle the issue, which would also help resolve the ongoing diplomatic crisis.
In conclusion: There is absolutely nothing normal about an elderly farmer being tortured to death with a power drill. I reject that psychotic standard of “just normal crime” with the contempt it deserves.
