South African farm attacks

"A farmer has 4.5 times more chance of being murdered in South Africa, than an average South African. That means a farmer is three times more likely to be murdered in South Africa than a police officer in this country. So farmers have by far the most dangerous job of all people in this country, at the moment. We cannot allow this to continue the way it is"

"Every time I read of a cruel farm attack, my genes rebel, my memory cells kick in and I feel angry and despondent"

"If you look at the footage and read the stories,you hear the accounts, it's a horrific circumstance they face"

"I do think on the information that I've seen, people do need help, and they need help from a civilized country like ours"

"The farmers live in fear, because being a farmer in South Africa is the most dangerous occupation in the world"

"We need for these officers to be specially trained to work in hotspot areas. We find many times that court cases are often thrown out because of poor (police) investigations"

"Kill the boer (farmer)"

"There are no killings of white farmers in South Africa"

"There is a very clear upward variance in farm attacks and farm murders after high-profile incidents of hate speech"

"Our analysis of five incidents of hate speech from high political leaders against farmers indicated that farm murders in the months following these incidents increased by an average of 74.8%"

"There is a climate in which violence towards farmers is being romanticized by politicians"

"We believe there are important reasons why the US should take a stance on what is happening in South Africa"

"The truth of the matter is that there was a massive vacuum left in rural safety when the commando system was disbanded under the then minister of defence, Lekota, and we were told there was going to be a new system, but his new system never arrived"

"I have asked Secretary of State to closely study the South African land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers"