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There is insufficient data to reliably estimate a murder rate for South African farmers. [13] South African government data indicated between 58 and 74 murders on farms annually in the period 2015–2017; out of an annual murder count of 20,000 total murders in South Africa; [25] [26] these figures are broadly consistent with figures collected ...
Killing of Brendin Horner. Brendin 'Choppie' Horner (c.1999 – 1 October 2020) was a 21-year-old South African farm manager for the Bloukruin Estate at Paul Roux, [1] Free State, who was killed by a suspected stock thief or thieves. His body was recovered at DeRots farm outside Paul Roux, and two suspects were taken into custody.
The term Afrikaners or Afrikaans people [6] [7] [8] is generally used in modern-day South Africa for the white Afrikaans-speaking population of South Africa (the largest group of White South Africans) encompassing the descendants of both the Boers, and the Cape Dutch who did not embark on the Great Trek.
South African song. "Dubul' ibhunu" (Xhosa:[dəbʊliːbuːnuː]), translated as shoot the Boer,[1]as kill the Boer[2]or as kill the farmer,[3][4]is a controversial anti-apartheid South African song. It is sung in Xhosaor Zulu. The song originates in the struggle against apartheidwhen it was first sung to protest the Afrikaner-dominated ...
The Azanian People's Liberation Army ( APLA ), formerly known as Poqo, [1] [2] [3] was the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, an African nationalist movement in South Africa. In the Xhosa language, the word 'Poqo' means 'pure'. After attacks on and the murder of several white families the APLA was subsequently classified as a ...
Murder of Anene Booysen. Anene Booysen (October 30, 1995 – February 2, 2013) was a 17-year-old girl who was found by a security guard the morning after she had been gang-raped and disemboweled at a construction site in Bredasdorp, in the Western Cape, South Africa on February 2, 2013; she was still alive, but died later in the day.
On 15 November 1988, white supremacist Barend Strydom carried out a shooting spree at Strijdom Square in central Pretoria, South Africa, killing eight people and injuring 16 others. Seven of the victims were black, while one was Indian. Strydom was later convicted and sentenced to death for the attack, but was released from prison as a ...
1899–1910. v. t. e. The history of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 spans the period of the history of the Cape Colony during the Cape Frontier Wars, which lasted from 1779 to 1879. The wars were fought between the European colonists and the native Xhosa who, defending their land, fought against European rule. Map of the Cape Colony in 1809.