I'm all for supporting ethical, socially and environmentally responsible farmers at the best of times, in fact to coin a cliche, 'many of my best friends are farmers..'. However as much as one can never condone murder, no matter where, I just don't see why farmers should see themselves as any different from the rest of South Africans when it comes to crime. Why aren't folk standing up for the residents of Nyanga, the ganglands of Mannenberg, Atlantis (or anywhere else for that matter), where the murder rate far exceeds that of farmers.
This is not a unique issue facing farmers alone and is more likely to polarise rather than generate sympathy from majority of equally frustrated citizens. This has nothing to do with politics, as much as the Right Wing and frustrated Expats would have one believe.
Let's approach this as 'All of Us', as opposed to 'Poor Me'..
