The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has voiced relief at the foiling of a Free State farm attack by the local farming community's intelligence structures.
"The farm attack was stopped by Free State agriculture in conjunction with the police," ACDP agriculture spokesperson Francois van Wyk said in a statement on Thursday.
A Bothaville farmer and his wife were to have been the victims of the planned farm attack.
Van Wyk said although 18 Free State farmers and their relatives were killed last year, it was encouraging that farmers' intelligence had helped to stop a further 60 farm attacks.
Condemning the recent murder of a farm manager in KwaZulu-Natal, he said the ACDP had drawn attention to a possible connection between farm attacks and "incorrect assertions" - especially true lately in the Western Cape.
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Silence in communicating the true facts when these assertions were proved wrong would inevitably lead to a decline in trust in the government and Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulama Xingwana, said Van Wyk.
The ACDP urged the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate charges in this regard laid against Xingwana and to make public their findings to stop further bloodshed.
While crime against farmers were a serious problem, their murders was a worsening crisis, he said. - Sapa
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