KEY POINTS
- The Police Minister Senzo Mchunu demanded that AfriForum supply facts to negate established crime statistics.
- The organization AfriForum criticized SAPS for what they depicted as incorrect methods of recording farm murder statistics.
- The lobby group maintains that its White House meeting occurred because the South African government neglected rural security matters.
During his US tour AfriForum failed to deliver evidence that refutes South Africa’s reported crime figures regarding white farm killings.
The lobby group challenged the statistics shown in the 2024/2025 third-quarter crime report because they argued SAPS maintains unsound data management practices.
As the chief community safety spokesperson for AfriForum Jacques Broodryk stated that his organization’s independent farm crime monitoring system did not show any major reductions in farm violence statistics which differed from official SAPS crime reports.
Mchunu denied the claims of AfriForum by issuing a challenge for their return from a United States business trip to present evidence. Official SAPS statistics document the murder of a single white farmer during the specified period according to Mchunu.
The organization AfriForum justifies their White House meeting activities
The CEO of AfriForum named Kallie Kriel presented his arguments that defended the group’s travel to the Trump administration to address ongoing government issues between South Africa and the United States.
President Cyril Ramaphosa together with ANC leadership are responsible for social fragmentation according to Kriel because of the Bela Act and land expropriation without compensation policies.
Both the government and AfriForum maintain opposing positions about farm killings in South Africa but lack agreement on these classifications.
