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So the big story that often comes out of South Africa is the targeting of the farmers. What a lot of critics argue is that these farmers aren’t being targeted because they’re White, they’re being targeted because they’re wealthy. What would you say to this claim?
Well, that is one part of a bigger-picture answer or explanation. Yes, farmers are employers.
They have money and there’s this perception that if you kill a farmer, you will find cash in the safe or something. And unfortunately, in some cases, that is true that some farmers do work with cash and the robbers get that. But that is a very oversimplified, one-dimensional explanation that doesn’t speak to the rest of the realities of South Africa, which includes that many of these farmers are being tortured for hours.
So, if you are just there to get money, you go in, you kill the farmer, and you take the stuff, and you leave. But that’s not what is happening on these farms.
You find that these farmers are being tied up in some of these attacks. The attackers chant political slogans. In some of these cases, they would write political slogans on the wall, like, “Kill the Boer.” In one extreme case, they even wrote, “Kill the Boer” with the blood of the victims on the wall.
And then they would torture them for hours in many of these cases with different methods, strangulation, dismemberment, cutting off body parts and so forth. In some cases, gouging out their eyes, cutting out their tongues, burning them with boiling water, with clothing irons. The list just goes on with the horrific ways in which these farmers have been tortured.
And if you say these farmers are just being killed because they have money that provides no answer or explanation as to why these tortures are taking place and why these political slogans are being used today.
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I've talked to South Africans who confirm this.