Several highways leading to the South African cities of Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg have become clogged with traffic jams as hundreds of trucks are moving slowly in a protest organized by white farmers and their supporters.
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Major protest in South-Africa against the 300+ violent attacks on farmers. #Blackmonday pic.twitter.com/YEXL03kksR
The protest, which was entitled Black Monday, aimed at focusing attention on the high rate of white farmers' murders, which is much higher than the overall murder rate in South Africa. During the last year alone, some 70 white farmers have been killed in 341 attacks on farms.
South Africa: A tribute for slain Stellenbosch farmer, Joubert Conradie by a friend during the Farm Murders protest in Klapmuts. 30-10-2017 pic.twitter.com/pKklNeYbu9
— Rowan Van Dijk (@Lastkombo) 30 октября 2017 г.
"A farmer has 4.5 times more chance of being murdered in South Africa, than an average South African," Ian Cameron, head of community safety of AfriFrom, which is a lobby group, promoting the right of the white minority in the country, said.
"That means a farmer is three times more likely to be murdered in South Africa than a police officer in this country. So farmers have by far the most dangerous job of all people in this country, at the moment. We cannot allow this to continue the way it is," Cameron added.
However, the protest was opposed by the Black 1st Land 1st group, who called white farmers "racist, cruel land thieves" in a series of tweets.
#BlackMonday: White farmers are racist, cruel land thieves who don't deserve our sympathy.
— BLACK 1ST LAND 1ST (@Black1stLand1st) 30 октября 2017 г.
#BlackMonday: BLF calls on gov to protect farm workers & to expropriate land of white farmers & make sure farm workers are prioritised. pic.twitter.com/zs18k3q9ci
— BLACK 1ST LAND 1ST (@Black1stLand1st) 30 октября 2017 г.
