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Available reporting shows no single, universally accepted total for “farm murders in South Africa in 2024.” Government police statistics cited in media say authorities recorded very few farm murders i...
Official, reliable time‑series data disaggregating farm murders by race do not exist for most of the period 2016–2025, so definitive statements about changing “murder rates on South African farms by r...
South African police figures and expert analysis show roughly 50–63 people killed on farms each year in recent years, representing well under 1% of national murders; police do not routinely publish a ...
South Africa continues to register a very high murder rate by international standards — recent estimates cited in coverage put the country’s intentional homicide rate around 45 per 100,000 for the 202...
There is no credible evidence in current reporting that white South Africans are the victims of a state‑backed or large‑scale “genocide.” Multiple South African officials, courts, think‑tanks and inte...
Experts and government figures say farm murders in South Africa are a small subset of a very large national homicide problem — roughly 50–70 people killed on farms each year against some 19,000+ murde...