WHITE GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA
LAST month, British woman Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn
were woken at 2am by three men breaking into a window of their remote
farm in Dullstroom, a small town in the northeast of South Africa, about
240km from the nearest capital city.
The couple, who had lived in the area for 20 years, were tied up, stabbed, and tortured with a blowtorch for several hours.
The masked men stuffed a plastic bag down Mrs Howarth’s throat, and
attempted to strangle her husband with a bag around his neck.
The couple were bundled into their own truck, still in their pyjamas,
and driven to a roadside where they were shot. Mrs Howarth, 64, a
former pharmaceutical company executive, was shot twice in the head. Mr
Lynn, 66, was shot in the neck.
Miraculously he survived, and managed to flag down a passer-by early
on Sunday morning. Mrs Howarth, who police said was “unrecognizable”
from her injuries, had multiple skull fractures, gunshot wounds and
“horrific” burns to her breasts.
“Sue was discovered amongst some trees, lying in a ditch,” writes Jana Boshoff, reporter for the local Middelburg Observer newspaper. “Her rescuers managed to find her by following her groans of pain and then noticing drag marks from the road into the field.
“Her head was covered with a towel. Her eyes were swollen shut. She
was partially clothed with just scraps of her shirt remaining. Her
breasts and upper body was bloody. The plastic bag, shoved down her
throat, took some effort to remove because her jaw was clamped down
tightly.
“How she managed to breathe with the bag in her throat remains a
mystery. One of her rescuers later recalled how Sue was unresponsive
except for the constant groaning. Whilst the man ran back to the road to
see if an ambulance has not arrived yet, she managed to curl one of her
arms around her breasts in a last attempt to protect herself.”
She was rushed to hospital and placed on life support, but died two days later.
This is happening on a daily basis in South Africa to white farmers. It is being done deliberately with forethought because the South African government sanctions the torture and murder of white farmers. There have been more than 70 attacks and around
25 murders in similar attacks on white farmers in months time.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union, which represents commercial farmers, and civil rights group AfriForum.
According to the TAU, last year there were 345 attacks resulting in
70 deaths — the highest death toll since 2008. In 2015 there were 318
attacks resulting in 64 deaths, and the year before there were 277
attacks resulting in 67 deaths.
In total, between 1998 and the end of 2016, 1848 people have been
murdered in farm attacks — 1187 farmers, 490 family members, 147 farm
employees, and 24 people who happened to be visiting the farm at the
time.
The rise in farm attacks has been blamed on increasingly anti-white hate speech, particularly from the ruling African National Congress.
