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Agri Eastern Cape has expressed its deep concern over farm attacks.
The organisation referred to Friday's attack near Maclear, in which farmer Boy Jordaan of the farm Tentkop was murdered.
Agri Eastern Cape has also expressed its outrage at the assault on Jimmy Renton and his wife on their farm near Komga last week.
They were not seriously injured.
Agri Eastern Cape has commended the prompt actions of the police and local community in both cases, which have led to the arrest of suspects.
It says the statistics for violent crimes against commercial farmers since 1994 show that it is now approaching 5-thousand different incidents, of which nearly half have been fatal.
This accounts for roughly 12.5% of the total number of commercial farmers in South Africa, and completely dwarfs the equivalent statistics for Zimbabwe over this period.
