Tag: Bheki Cele

The long-awaited Rural Safety Summit is currently underway in the Free State. Agri SA says it will only have been worth stakeholders’ time and investment if the outcome is an ...

A total of 15 people lost their lives in farm attacks between 1 July and 30 September this year. Almost half of these victims were murdered in the Free State.

Police statistics for the first quarter of the financial year (April to June) show a year-on-year increase in almost all categories of crime in the province, even when compared to ...

Free State farming communities believe that livestock theft is an even greater threat than farm attacks. Often, animals are stolen by syndicates led by law enforcement agencies. In July alone, ...

Livestock theft has decreased in all provinces between 2019 and 2021. This, for the first time since 2003 when the police first released its national crime statistics for South Africa. ...

Free State police spokesperson Brigadier Sam Makhele has slammed farmers’ allegations that it does not have sufficient capacity to sufficiently address increasing livestock theft within the province. Speaking to Food ...

How do farmers safeguard their animals from the threat of crop and livestock theft, which is ever-present in Mzansi? Farmers are at their wits end and sleeping with one eye ...

The agricultural sector has condemned the murder of six police officers in the last ten days. While police minister Bheki Cele called on officers to “use deadly force to defend” ...

While claiming that some farm murders in the last three months of 2020 were committed by farmers themselves, police minister Bheki Cele did not divulge detailed information about these incidents. ...

Looking for a bit of a break from all those sugar-laden soft drinks and don’t want to cross a certain “top cop” during the #BoozeBan? (We see you, minister Bheki ...