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conix, better all hope - South African farm attacks

In attacks on South African farms, predominantly white farmers and black farm workers[1][2][3] are subjected to violent crime, including murder. Farm attacks have been described as "frequent" in the post-Apartheid period, and some analysts believe they may be linked to racial animosity within South African society.[4][5][6][7] The South African government, and other analysts, as well as Afrikaner rights group Afriforum maintain that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South Africa, and do not have a racial motivation.[1][8][9][10] Statistics released in 2018 by the South African government showed that while the number of attacks had increased between 2012 and 2018, the number of murders on farms had decreased, year-on-year during the period,[11] and farming organisation AgriSA reported that the murder rate on farms had declined to the lowest level in 20 years,[12] a third of the level in 1998.[13]

A November 2017 analysis by the BBC found that there is insufficient data to estimate a murder rate for South African farmers.[3] Between 1994 and March 2012, there had been 361,015 murders in all of South Africa and between 1990 and March 2012, there had been an estimated 1,544 murders on South African farms of which 208 of the victims were Black.[14] The data for farm attacks is self-reported to a commercial farmer's organisation, Transvaal Agricultural Union. The last government analysis of farm attack victims by race was conducted in 2001. In 2001, the year with the highest number of attacks,[13] the police's Crime Information Analysis Centre stated that of the 1,398 people attacked on farms, 61.6% were white, 33.3% were black, 4.4% were Asian and 0.7% were listed as "other", with murders on farms in 2007 accounting for 0.6% of the national total.[15] Racial statistics around crime are no longer collected by the South African government.[16] In January 2015, AfriForum reported that there had been an increase in farm attacks and murders in the previous five years.[17]

White farmers have long complained they are at risk of rising violent crime and that they are ignored by the South African government.[18] The physical isolation of farms,[12] and the perception that farmers have cash (for the payment of wages) and weapons onsite have been described by police as a possible motivation for criminal attacks on farms.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks#Australia

Down a bit in that link one example of an arguably racially inspired off-the-hip reaction from the present conservative
federal Australian government that went kaput. It could be fairly called a Trump/Trump supporter-like response

International reaction

The Suidlanders, a survivalist Afrikaner group preparing for a race war,[43] and that believes in the prophesies of Siener van Rensburg[44][45][46] has taken credit for publicising the issue internationally after undertaking a tour of the US in 2017.[47] In 2018, Afriforum leaders also embarked on a tour of the USA to "raise awareness" about farm attacks and land expropriation.[48][49]

Australia

After an Australian journalist was given a guided tour of South Africa by Afriforum,[48][49] stories about attacks on white farmers appeared in News Corp Australia papers claiming that white South Africans were "trapped like frogs in boiling water"[50] and that the South African government was "notoriously corrupt" and "potentially complicit" in the attacks[25] and stating that the farmers were being "persecuted" because of their race.[51][52]

In March 2018 Australia's Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton proposed fast-tracking[53] white South African farmers as refugees,[54][55] stating that "they need help from a civilised country",[54][55] amid pressure by the South African Australian community for a special immigration intake for their family members.[50][52] Dutton's proposal reportedly got support from some of his party's backbenchers and Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm,[56] however Leyonhjelm later clarified that he thought that South African farmers could be admitted under existing family reunification and skilled visa programmes, and that he did not believe that they qualified as refugees.[57] National Party of Australia MP Andrew Broad warned that the mass migration of South African farmers would result in food shortages in South Africa.[58]

The Australian High Commisioner was subjected to a démarche by the South African foreign ministry, which expressed its offence at Dutton's statements, and demanded a retraction,[59][60] stating that "there is no reason for any government in the world to suspect that a section of South Africans is under danger from their own democratically elected government".[61] Afrikaner groups including AfriForum, as well as the Suidlanders, who took credit for Dutton's offer,[47] rejected the idea of Afrikaners becoming refugees.[47]

Australia's ruling Coalition MPs subsequently stated that white farmers were entitled to apply for humanitarian visas, without necessarily meeting the definition of "refugees", describing the situation as "difficult" and "unique" but without calling for a special category of visa to be created.[62] The Australian government reportedly effectively retracted Dutton's offer, and responded to the démarche with a letter that "satisfied" the South African foreign ministry,[63] with the South African government officially "welcoming" the letter, and stating again that "...no one is being persecuted in South Africa, including white farmers".[64][65] However, Dutton reiterated his position that the farmers were persecuted, denied any retraction, and insisted that the Australian government was looking at "several" individual cases that may qualify for humanitarian visas.[66] In April 2018, it emerged that Dutton's department had previously blocked asylum applications by a white farmer, and another white South African woman on the basis that "the vast majority of crimes against whites are not racially motivated", and on the basis that there was no evidence of racial persecution, with the decisions upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.[67]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks#International_reaction

That's not to say South Africa couldn't handle the situation better, but then again could they? Could
America be handling their crime situation better? Could the U.K.? Could China? Could Australia?

I think that covers your article pretty well. Oops, forgot Zimbabwe. A couple of little ones.

Zimbabwe's remaining white farmers will get 99-year leases
New government policy marks a dramatic change from past widespread evictions of white farmers
The Associated Press · Posted: Feb 01, 2018 12:03 PM ET | Last Updated: February 2
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/zimbabwe-white-farmers-1.4514050


The return of Zim’s white farmers
Kudzai Mashininga 20 Apr 2018 00:00
https://mg.co.za/article/2018-04-20-00-the-return-of-zims-white-farmers

Looks, and feels, better all round. Whaddaya think.