A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, confirmed in Johannesburg on Monday that farm attacks were motivated by racial hatred.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are allegations of race and politics being the motivation but these cannot be substantiated,\u201d Johan Burger claimed initially, but had to concede that farm murders exploded when when former president Thabo Mbeki phased out the commando\u2019s for purely racist reasons.<\/p>\n
Burger, who was speaking at an SA Human Rights Commission hearing on safety and security in farming communities, said farmers became vulnerable when former president Thabo Mbeki ditched the idea of safety for white farmers.<\/p>\n
While trying to defend the black attackers, Burger actually made a strong case for the white victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a feeling that the commandos were an extension of right-wing groups and that blacks were under-represented in them. There was also a perception that the commandos were concerned only about the safety of white people,\u201d he said, confirming that neither whites nor conservative groups have the right to safety.<\/p>\n
Burger said farm attacks were always vicious.<\/p>\n
But he also claimed that the intention of the assailants was usually simply to steal cash and goods, when black attackers almost never steal anything except cellphones which make it difficult for surviving victims to call for help.<\/p>\n
In instances in which attackers used racist language, Burger said, it could be just \u201ctough talk\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are motivated by greed and not politics or race,\u201d he insisted, \u00a0trying to minimize the clear evidence of racial hatred<\/a> that mark the attacks.<\/p>\n ANC police commissioner Riah Phiyega declared that \u201cpoor adherence to labour laws\u201d and \u201cunsatisfactory labour relations\u201d were a \u201ccontributory factor\u201d in farm attacks, while conveniently ignoring ANC leaders who chant \u201ckill a boer\u201d at mass meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n The commissioner thus reiterated popular threats by the ANC to confiscate white property justified by a set of baseless claims.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of the workers are not registered and are illegal immigrants and it becomes difficult to track some of the people during police investigations,\u201d she said, also forgetting that the country has an open-border policy thanks to her party\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n Police were no longer classifying crimes taking place on farms separately, in trying to hide the racist scourge that white farmers have to suffer.<\/p>\n Howard Mbana, a Food and Allied Workers\u2019 Union representative, said farmworkers were still subjected to abuse by their bosses.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is widespread violation of farmworkers\u2019 rights by farm owners. Workers still suffer from beatings and insults on a regular basis. Farmworkers live in conditions of indignity and slavery; animals live better,\u201d said Mbana.<\/p>\n He could, as per usual, give no examples of the alleged abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, confirmed in Johannesburg on Monday that farm attacks were motivated by racial hatred. \u201cThere are allegations of race and politics being the motivation but these cannot be substantiated,\u201d Johan Burger claimed initially, but had to concede that farm murders exploded when when former president Thabo Mbeki … Continue reading “Whites and conservatives have no rights in SA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10160,8872,208,608,2170,157,526],"class_list":["post-16249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-commandoes","tag-conservative","tag-farm-murders","tag-genocide-watch","tag-hate-crimes","tag-racism","tag-white"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16252,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions\/16252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}