Theo de Jager is a South African farmer based in the Limpopo province, where he has farmed since 1997, growing timber, subtropical fruits like avocados, mangos, and macadamia nuts.
For interest’s sake, I live in the Western Cape (south-west). The Kruger National Park, which we try to visit annually, spans Limpopo and Mpumalanga, about a 2.5-hour flight from Cape Town to Nelspruit, then roughly an hour’s drive to one of the park’s gates.
South Africa is a big country. Kruger is about the size of Israel.
Farm attacks are a brutal reality—torture, rape, and murder strike isolated families with chilling precision.
— Ian Cameron, community safety advocate
About Theo
Theo is a prominent agricultural leader, serving as president of the World Farmers' Organisation from 2017 to 2021 and previously as president of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) and the Pan African Farmers' Organisation (PAFO).
He chairs Agri All Africa and has been involved in land reform and farmer development initiatives.
Also a lawyer, Theo was named Agriculturist of the Year in 2016 for his work modernising African agriculture.
He is a passionate farmer who has no intention of being pushed off to another country. South Africa is his home, like it is mine.
The horror of farm attacks is unmatched—blowtorches and stabbings mark a cruelty beyond mere robbery.
— Ernst Roets, former deputy CEO, AfriForum
Farm attacks
Since 1994 (when 'democracy' was installed), South African (White) farmers have faced relentless, brutal attacks that feel like a war on their existence.
Over 2,295 people (farmers and family members) have been murdered on farms, with 63 killed annually on average over the last decade, including 50 in 2023 alone.
That's about one farm murder every week.
Over 95% of farm attacks from 2019-2022 remain unsolved—justice fails as violence festers.
— Transvaal Agricultural Union, farmers’ union
It doesn't sound like a lot and the typical argument presented by the government and mainstream media is that it's simply random and part of the broader crime problem.
Which is nonsense.
It isn't a numbers game; the deeper agenda needs to be understood.
I’ve been a member of the Mavericks Project for years, a global network founded by guys I know, buffering against central control. They don't accept all applications because they focus on quality, not quantity.
The agenda
Which group of people has songs sung about their killing?
Julius Malema, a politician and leader of South Africa’s third-largest political party, and his followers often sing ‘Kill the Boer’ (Afrikaans for ‘White farmer’). I’m unaware of rape victims facing songs by political parties about women being raped. I’m unaware of political parties singing songs about murdering nurses or torturing engineers.
Nobody sings 'Rape the Woman' or 'Murder the Engineer'.
Yet, I do know of political parties singing songs, in stadiums with tens of thousands of Blacks singing along, about shooting White farmers.
White South Africans are facing genocide from black Africans.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) December 8, 2023
They’re chanting “kill the Boer”.
We’re not racist. They are.
White lives matter. pic.twitter.com/Wvj3MAUzIH
That is intent.
It is not subtle.
It is very black and white.
And, no, I don't care about the 'metaphorical' argument shoved down our throats. We constantly hear about the song being 'just poetry' and a 'struggle song' since the apartheid era.
What struggle are these urban Blacks going on about?
Apartheid, between 1948 and 1994, lasted 48 years. Black governance has lasted 31 years and counting.
The Black middle class is way larger than the White middle class. The president is Black. The deputy president is Black. Almost the entire government and all its departments are Black, including health, legal, education and so on. Almost the entire police force is Black. The South African Reserve Bank has Black leadership. I can go on.
There are even 142 laws favouring Blacks.
Then there is the 2025 Expropriation Act, allowing land seizures without compensation (which is theft), which was signed into law by the president.
The agenda is blatant.
Anyone who claims farm attacks are random acts of crime should be met with contempt.
I want to add that I believe farm attacks are not solely a domestic issue but part of a foreign-backed destabilisation strategy.
However, I can't provide convincing evidence.
Yet.
