Stop the murder and torture of farmers in South Africa

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Afrikaner farm owners are being murdered at a rate four times the murder rate of other South Africans, including Black farm owners. Their families are also subjected to extremely high crime rates, including murder, rape, mutilation and torture of the victims.

South African police fail to investigate or solve many of these murders, which are carried out by organized gangs, often armed with weapons that police have previously confiscated. The racial character of the killing is covered up by a SA government order prohibiting police from reporting murders by race. Instead the crisis is denied and the murders are dismissed as ordinary crime, ignoring the frequent mutilation of the victims’ bodies, a sure sign that these are hate crimes.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

This isn't something that the UK Government or Parliament could do.

You could start a new petition calling on the UK Government to raise this issue with the South African Government.

Timeline

25 Oct 2017	Petition opened for signatures
1 Nov 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Nov 2017

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