Afriforum: ANC should accept responsibility for farm murders

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 Civil rights organisation AfriForum says the ANC should accept responsibility for farm murders.

CEO Kallie Kriel says in a statement that ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe's attempts to exempt the ruling party from accepting any responsibility for the farm murder crisis, ignores the fact that the ANC is directly involved in creating a vindictive climate.

He says farm murders flourish in this climate.

Kriel says the ANC's silent approval and even active support of hate speech aimed at farmers, Afrikaners and whites in general, directly contributes to creating circumstances in which some people now see these groups as legitimate targets.

AfriForum's criticism follows Mantashe's statement in the media to justify the ANC that the party could not be on every farm.