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Oct
13
2020
By The African Mirror
S.Africa’s Ramaphosa warns against using farm murders to stoke racial hatred

S.Africa’s Ramaphosa warns against using farm murders to stoke racial hatred

NEWS
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans not to use murders of white farmers to inflame racial tensions by falsely equating them with ethnic cleansing, a week after a farm killing stoked violent protests. The killing of Brendin Horner, a white farm manager, in Free State province at the start of this month, triggered riots in the town of Senekal. White demonstrators stormed a police station where two Black suspects were being held. Some fired shots and set fire to a police car. "What happened in Senekal shows just how easily the tinderbox of race hatred can be ignited," Ramaphosa…
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Oct
12
2020
By The African Mirror
“We must resist any attempts to use crime on farms to mobilise communities along racial lines”

“We must resist any attempts to use crime on farms to mobilise communities along racial lines”

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
CYRYL RAMAPHOSA   JUST over a week ago, Brendin Horner, a young farm manager in the Free State, was murdered in an appalling act of cruelty. His killing should anger and upset every one of us. No matter who we are, no matter what community we live in, no matter our race, creed or language, we should be as deeply affected by the death of Brendin Horner as we are by the many other South Africans who die violent deaths each year. Just as we mourn the loss of his life, we also mourn the deaths of Mogamad Cloete, Tawqeer…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Police attacked for inaction after angry white South African farmers take the law into their hands

Police attacked for inaction after angry white South African farmers take the law into their hands

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN violent acts of defiance, fueled by anger over the brutal of a young farmer in Senekal, in the Free State, his colleagues torched a police van, tried to overturn another and forced their way into court where at least two shots were fired. Failure by the police to act against the farmers has been criticised by South Africans who took to social media to express their anger.  Pandemonium erupted at the Senekal Magistrates Court where two suspects, Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba (32) and Sekola Piet Matlaetsa (44), arrested for the murder of Brendin Horner (22), appeared. The…
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