[TheTimes] Attacks on South African farms rose by 25 per cent last year according to an organisation that has recorded cases of increasing brutality, including torture.Victims were assaulted with electric drills, blowtorches and bleach, indicating “a racial element”, said Ernst Roets, of Afriforum, which champions the rights of the Afrikaner minority.
He said that only white farming families, and never black victims, ever suffered such levels of violence. There were more than eight attacks on rural properties per week, 433 incidents, up from 342 the previous year and the highest recorded by the group