How South Africa's Farm Murders Began and Why the ANC Stopped Fighting Them

In a speech in Washington DC Dr James Myburgh talks about the history of farm murders in South Africa.

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Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Dr James Myburgh traces South Africa's farm attack crisis from the ANC's mid-1980s campaign from exile to the state's dismantling of the murder and robbery units and the rural commandos, and argues that normalising these attacks has had terrible consequences for all South Africans.

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