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“Farm Murders” 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 SAPS 2015/16 "official" figures: 58 Murders from 519 Attacks (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2015/16 figures: 70 Murders from 344 Attacks AfriForum 2015 figures: 64 Murders from 318 Attacks (Calculated by Calendar Year) There are 64 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 3 couples (farmer and wife) between 15/08/2...
Farm Murders in South Africa are a highly politicised issue. Outside of the general concern for homicide in the country, the farm murder rate has been used by many as evidence that South Africa’s white minority is facing victimisation, oppression, and possibly genocide. During a parliamentary debate, the Freedom Front Plus and African Christian Democratic Party quoted farm murder rates of 97 an...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 TAU SA 2020 figures: 71 Murders (Calculated by Calendar Year) AfriForum 2020 figures: 63 Murders from 384 Attacks There are 63 Victims remembered in this Project This figure includes 5 couples (farmer and wife) between 26/07/2020 - 14/12/2020 35 Victims were aged between 60 - 87 2020 April Female Victim (71) 18/04/2020 Impendle...
Indian Massacres Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years, from isolated incidents to large scale, organized wars. If the casualty was a civilian, of any background, our goal is to capture their death in a project on this list of “Indian Massacres.” So please add profiles to the massacre projects listed below; those projects are also found in t...
Please add Geni profiles for our drowned ones to this project. Additional demographic data is especially appreciated as added resources.==Drowning==From Wikipedia Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. It is further classified by outcome into: death , ongoing health problems and no ongoing health problems . Using the term "near drowning" to refer to those...
South African Crime Victims, (mostly robbery related) Crime in South Africa is at epidemic proportions, Many who immigrate cite crime as one of the primary reasons for leaving South Africa. IRR crime analyst Kerwin Lebone said: “South Africans live with horrific levels of violent crime. While the murder rate has fallen since 1994, at 31.9 per 100 000 people, it remains one of the highest in th...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 SAPS 2003/04 "official" figures: 88 Murders from 773 Attacks (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2003 figures: 89 Murders (Calculated by Calendar Year) There are 89 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 8 couples (farmer and wife) between April 2003 - 12/03/2004 42 Victims were aged between 60 - 82 2003 April Johan Ke...
From America's Top Killing Machine For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers ...
Homicide Please try to start sub projects with the actual cause of death. {note from morel : I am adding a few profiles here, until we establish how we breakdown homicide death. After that, I will move those profiles into their applicable subprojects.} related projects Assassinated Asphyxiated Clergycide Eldercide Family killing family Femicide
There is no sense to the killing of our children, and each case seems slightly different, but these children have been failed by us all. My heart broke while adding the over 300 profiles to this project with the knowledge that more would come, and that right now, somewhere in Aotearoa New Zealand, a child is being hurt and no one is hearing their cries - or someone is ignoring them. Text by Deb...
A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others. Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing generally moves perpendicular to and directly into the victim's body, rather than being drawn across i...
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
=Unnatural death= is a category used by coroners or Medical Examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Hence it would include events such as:* accident * Drug Overdose * attacked by an animal * killed by a mob * execution * homicide * medical error * misadventure* State-sponsored mass murder
Femicide or feminicide is a hate crime which is broadly defined as "the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female", with definitions varying based on cultural context. In 1976, the feminist author Diana E. H. Russell first defined the term as "the killing of females by males because they are female." A spouse or partner is responsible in almost 40% of homicides involving...
Family killing family==Do you have ancestors who have killed each other? This could be on purpose or by accident. I have found several of these tragedies in my own tree. ===notes===A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are killed, or in which a parent or parents and possibly other relatives such as siblings and grandparents are ...
Cut-throats can be of homicidal, suicidal or accidental origin. In cases of death from a cut-throat, distinguishing the cause is one of the important functions in crime investigation. The features that differentiate suicidal and homicidal cut-throat injuries are the presence of hesitation cuts, depth of wound, signs of struggle, edges of the wound, etc. In the case of a suicidal cut-throat, it ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 AfriForum 2021 figures: 55 Murders from 415 Attacks There are 32 Victims remembered in this Project This figure includes 3 incidents of multiple murder cases on different farms between 24/04/2021 - 09/01/2022 14 Victims were aged between 60 - 95 2021 April Samuel Maposa (41) 07/04/2021 Smallholding, Remhoogte, Hartbeespoortdam, NW...
This page is intended to stand as a memorial to the victims of murder in New Zealand. Please add names by year and then by date of murder. Please note that this page is a work in progress. There are separate pages, indexed on this page, for New Zealand mass murders (defined as the murder of four or more people at one time). Links New Zealand Cemeteries Index New Zealand Mass Murders New...
“Farm Murders” 1st April 2019 - 31 March 2020 SAPS 2019/20 "official" figures: 49 Murders (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2019 figures: 56 Murders (Calculated by Calendar Year) AfriForum 2019 figures: 45 Murders from 511 Attacks There are 50 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 2 couples (farmer and wife) between 12/07/2019 - 01/08/2019 32 Victims were ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 27/11/2022: TLU South Africa statistics indicate that 2,204 people have been killed on farms since 1990. In 2002, a total of 119 people were killed on farms, of whom 82 were farmers. This is the most murders recorded in one year during this 32-year period. * 28/02/2023: AfriForum launched its latest report on farm attacks and murders. Out of all th...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 1996 to 31 March 1997 SAPS 1996/97 "official" figures: 84 Murders from 433 Attacks There are 66 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 3 couples (farmer and wife) between 29/04/1996 - 22/03/1996 33 Victims were aged between 60 - 85 1996 April Willie Engelbrecht (66) 13/04/1996 Amsterdam, MP (stabbed to death) FB link Gert Johannes Stephanus ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 SAPS 2014/15 "official" figures: 60 Murders from 497 Attacks (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2014/15 figures: 68 Murders from 300 Attacks AfriForum 2014 figures: 61 Murders from 279 Attacks (Calculated by Calendar Year) There are 64 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 5 couples (farmer and wife) between 20/04/2...
“Farm Murders” 1st April 2018 - 31st March 2019 SAPS 2018/19 "official" figures: 50 Murders (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2018 figures: 33 Murders (Calculated by Calendar Year) AfriForum 2018 figures: 54 Murders from 443 Attacks (Calculated by Calendar Year) There are 46 Victims remembered in this project This figure includes 5 couples (farmer and wife) between 10/05/2018 - ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 SAPS 2017/18 "official" figures: 62 Murders from 561 Attacks (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2017/18 figures: 70 Murders from 418 Attacks AfriForum 2017 figures: 72 Murders from 342 Attacks (Calculated by Calendar Year) The South African Police Service, during their press briefing, released updated figures for the number of recorded fa...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 SAPS 2016/17 "official" figures: 74 Murders from 638 Attacks (Calculated by Financial Year) TAU SA 2016/17 figures: 78 Murders from 406 Attacks AfriForum 2016 figures: 64 Murders from 334 Attacks (Calculated by Calendar Year) According to the police’s crime statistics, the figures for farm attacks and murders increased drastically for the ...