Last Monday people of all races gathered together all over the country to show support for our farmers and to try and bring attention to the continuing murder of farmers in South Africa.
Seven club members met before sunrise to ride through to the gathering just outside of Paarl, myself, Gerrie, Daan, Willie, Elsje, Sooi and Linicia got on the road at 05h00 and arrived to an incredibly crowded scene just after 06h30. There were already thousands of people with a continuous stream coming in all the time.
The prayers were incredibly moving as were the testimonials and calls for peaceful resolution by the wife of one of the farmers who was recently killed and by his friends and neighbours.
From there the procession went in to Capetown, led by the hundreds of bikers that had turned up, followed by farmers in tractors and harvesters and then the massively long line of bakkies and cars. I heard later that it took literally hours before the last of the vehicles could get out.
Let me emphasize here that this was in no way a racial protest, these gatherings took place all over the country and concerned South Africans from all walks of life, "No Farmers, No Food!" was the call.
There have been some voices of reason in the South African government calling for an end to the attacks to stop the country degenerating into another Zimbabwe but a concerted effort is required. I read recently that the United Nations is now calling on Jacob Zuma to put an end to the farm murders or face sanction, we definitely need help.
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The killings still boggle my mind.
It's not being reported on international media and even one of the government ministers here said words to the effect "There is no killing of farmers going on, the farmers are the wealthiest part of society and if they feel insecure they should pay for more security." but as I said there are voices of reason though too few at the moment.
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