South Africa’s Farm Attacks: A Deliberate Campaign of Ideological Violence Tied to Government-Linked Crime

Farm attacks in South Africa are a systematic campaign of violence orchestrated by crime syndicates, often with alleged government ties, aimed at intimidating and displacing farmers, particularly white ones, according to a 2017 thesis by University of Limpopo researcher Cristopher Gumbi and supporting news reports. Gumbi’s findings reveal that 78% of these attacks between 2005 … Continue reading South Africa’s Farm Attacks: A Deliberate Campaign of Ideological Violence Tied to Government-Linked Crime