My work researching violence began with femicide - which kills incrementally more people every year than farm murders. And even I know I cannot tackle the issue of fatal violence against women without also tackling the country’s total homicide problem.

Farm murders are a terrible problem – but this insistence on treating them as if they are not part of a national violence problem, as if they are 'more' exceptional (and that the white deaths are 'most' exceptional) continues to actively obstruct any effective solutions or help.

It will never not piss me off when I see people continuing to use farm attacks to (attempt to) score political points, instead of working towards data and solutions and resolutions that might make *everyone* safer and more secure.

Like the woman who runs the witkruis monument but won't put up crosses for black victims.
If you only see violence when it affects you but cannot acknowledge violence affects everyone, we can't treat violence systemically. Bigger fences do not make a neighbourhood safer.