The government came under attack on Wednesday at a United Nations forum on minority issues in Geneva‚ Switzerland‚ by the rights group AfriForum. AfriForum’s Deputy CEO‚ Ernst Roets‚ strongly criticised the government for declaring that those asking for farm murders to be prioritised did so because they had racist agendas and because they were Apartheid sympathisers. Roets said at the conference that the South African government’s remark were extremely offensive to minority communities as well as an attack on the humanity of farm murder victims. He also pointed out the inconsistent actions of the South African government. “The Government is quick to argue that it does not make sense to prioritise farm murders‚ as these form part of a broader crime category.“Yet it is easy for the South African government to prioritise rhino poaching. It is easy for the South African government to deploy more police officers to black townships when a crime crisis breaks out – and we support that. It is easy for the South African government to draw up a counter-strategy when police officers are murdered in disproportionate numbers‚” Roets told the forum.“It is twice as dangerous in South Africa to be a farmer than being a police officer. But when farm murders are discussed‚ the reaction suddenly is that it makes no sense to prioritise it‚” Roets added...