We Ran the Farm Murder Numbers Using The Police's Own Data

Reine Opperman talks to Gabriel Makin about the very high risk farmers, of all races, face.

11 min

Reine Opperman takes Gabriel Makin through The Common Sense's analysis of SAPS data on farm attacks. South African farming households are attacked at roughly twice the rate of households in the general population — and a farm attack is 6.7 times as likely to end in murder than an armed house or business robbery anywhere else in the country.

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