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Unique Farm Murders
00:02:20
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| The farm murders is a very serious problem in South Africa. | |
| The response to that is to say, well, there are many problems in South Africa, so why are you pointing to this one? | |
| But the fact of the matter is that it's a very unique problem. | |
| And it's a problem that could only be prevented or combated by a unique counter-strategy. | |
| And there are a few things that make the farm murders unique. | |
| One is the extreme frequency at which it's happening. | |
| Just the sheer numbers, thousands of people having been murdered on farms, many of them tortured. | |
| In many of those cases, nothing is stolen. | |
| They just come in, they torture the farmers for several hours and then they leave. | |
| They would steal a cell phone and a car, but they steal the cell phone so that people can't call the police. | |
| And then they would leave the car by the wayside when they leave. | |
| So the numbers, just the numbers is very alarming. | |
| The second is the brutality, the high levels of torture that we see. | |
| And any torture method you can imagine has been employed in these farm attacks. | |
| And it's the most grotesque tortures you could think of in many of these cases. | |
| And like I said, oftentimes for hours. | |
| The third is the unique economic impact, because farmers are skilled people, they are employers, they provide food for the country. | |
| So it would have disastrous consequences for the nation at large, and it already has. | |
| The fourth is just the fact that farmers live in unique circumstances. | |
| They live far away from police stations, far away from their neighbours. | |
| Oftentimes it's dirt roads. | |
| Oftentimes it's bad cell phone signal. | |
| So that alone says that you need a unique counter strategy to fix this, even though the South African government doesn't want to recognize this. | |
| But then on top of this, what makes the farm murders exceptionally unique is that it's a very serious crime phenomenon that is also actively encouraged by politicians. | |
| So we have a problem in South Africa with violence against women and children. | |
| But you would never hear politicians say, we need to go out and beat women. | |
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Politicians Chanting Killing
00:00:31
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| And we need to go and, you know, if you see a child, you should kick the child or something. | |
| You know, we have a serious problem in terms of poaching. | |
| You don't hear politicians encouraging poaching. | |
| We have a serious problem in terms of copper cable theft. | |
| You don't hear politicians encouraging that. | |
| But when it comes to farm murders, we continuously hear politicians and very senior politicians actively chanting about killing the farmers and so forth. | |
| And so this has become a very, it has become a metaphor for the crisis in South Africa. | |