21 year old Brendin Horner was found by his girlfriend and father to have been beaten, stabbed and hung by the neck on a steel pole.
Apartheid in South Africa officially ended in 1994, that’s just 26 years ago which means that some of those involved in enforcing segregation still live. Apartheid was the separation of the blacks, coloureds and the whites, it’s very difficult to internalise exactly how it felt for colonists to conquer African land, enforcing Eurocentric values, a racist system oppressed the non-whites.
After Nelson Mandela’s presidency, the system favoured blacks, few of the blacks have since claimed compensation which has led to land grabbing.
Land grabbing is currently an issue in SA. There are some black south African individuals that wish to displace white South Africans, pushing them off the land with any means.
Though the deaths of SA farmers are frequent and this is indeed a racial issue, it is significant not to blame an entire group for the faults of a few.
Brendin Horner was a young SA Farmer that was murdered on the 1st of October. Recently on Tuesday (6/10/20), some white farmers and the family of Brendins’ had walked to the courthouse to discover that 2 of the suspects for the murder were policemen. The next court proceeding will be on the 16th October.
The President of SA has been quoted saying ‘there are no killings of white farmers in SA. There’s no land grab in SA.'
There will only be justice for the white South African farmers and healing in South Africa if racism is dealt with severely, if integration between tribes and ‘races’ is increasingly encouraged rather than the separate camps of white, black and coloured.
There are plenty of video documentations of ‘kill the Boer’ which means kill the farmer which is used to create discussions of stolen land, land distribution, disarming farmers and encouraging riots so land can be forcibly claimed.
It seems almost impossible to know how SA’s land is truly distributed with some claiming the white farmers own 10% and others claim the amount to be closer to 70%, but what should be taught is that it is the Khoisan also known as the bushmen who are indigenous to SA with 100,000 in number.
Until SA heals from apartheid white, black and coloured crosses must be held to progress into racial equality across the land.