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Why this matters

The South African government does not publish official statistics on rural and farm killings. These names exist because communities kept records.

The Information Blackout

Since 2007, the SAPS has stopped publishing separate statistics on farm attacks, merging them into general homicide figures. Without dedicated official data, the true scale of these killings has no public record — only the memory of those left behind.

About This Record

This record has been compiled by citizens and community organisations from 1959 to the present day. It is incomplete — many murders never make it onto any list. The true numbers are unknown.

Who Was Targeted

Victims include farmers, farmworkers, family members, and smallholding residents across all nine provinces — from isolated farms to peri-urban holdings.

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This record is updated continuously. If you know of a case not listed here, sign in with Google to submit it. Every name matters.

Where do these names come from, and is the list accurate? Read our full answer →

Statistics & Map

Documented killings by method, province, and year. Click any province or method to filter the Names List.

By Method of Attack

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Killings by Year

Documented deaths per year. Click a bar to filter the names list.

The Names

Each entry represents a life. Click any card to view details, or (as admin) edit the record.

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Upcoming candles

Who is remembered today, tomorrow, and on the days after — so a weekend or a week away can be worked through before it arrives. Nothing here changes what the site shows. The candles still light on the day itself; this only moves when you do the reading.

The flags are what the sources left blank, not mistakes. Most of this roll came from a typed list that gave a name and little else. A day with many flags is a day worth researching early, not a day something went wrong. Entries with no recorded day never appear here, because they have no anniversary. A missing photo is shown but never counted — it is true of 99% of the roll, and a face can only come from a family, never from research.

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Memorial roll — duplicate people

The roll was compiled from more than one list, and where those lists overlap a person can hold two entries. These are pairs that look like one person recorded twice. Nothing is merged automatically — read both, then decide. This is the memorial. Duplicate attacks are a separate queue, inside the Farm attacks register.

A wrong merge erases someone. Families are often killed together, so two entries sharing a surname, a farm and a date can still be two people — Don and Verina Delafield, or J.H. and J.M. Wium. The pair is only the same person if the names agree as well. When you are not sure, choose Two different people: that answer is recorded and the pair is never raised again.

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Public Gatherings

A register of public gatherings, and a test of whether the attacks recorded in this memorial cluster around them. Admin only — nothing here is visible to the public.

Read this before quoting any number below.

This measures association, not cause. Even a clear result would not show that one thing caused the other.
The memorial's coverage is uneven. Early years came from an imported historical list; recent years depend on submissions arriving. Expected counts are calculated year by year so this cancels out of the ratio — but raw counts across years are not comparable.
The sample is small. The “could detect” figure states the smallest swing this data could distinguish from chance. A result below it means we cannot tell — not that there is no effect.
Approximate event dates are excluded by default. A date recorded as “about March 2019” would smear across the calendar and invent overlap.

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Attacks by distance to nearest gathering

Each recorded attack placed by how many days separated it from the closest qualifying event. A real effect appears as a bump beside zero; a flat spread is the honest null.

Observed against chance

The grey distribution is what the same calculation returns when the event dates are shuffled to nearby random dates. The marker is the real figure. Inside the grey, there is nothing to report.

Timeline

Attacks recorded per month, with gathering dates marked underneath. Bar heights reflect what the memorial holds for that month, which is not the same as what happened.

Map

Where the recorded gatherings took place. Positions are approximate — the memorial stores place names, not coordinates, so attacks are matched by province only and this map cannot be used to measure distance.

By province

Where a signal would have to live. Provinces with only a handful of records cannot support any conclusion. Rows count attacks, not gatherings — so “No province on the record” means the memorial entry never had one written down, not that anything happened nationwide.

By year

The coverage curve, made visible. What the memorial holds per year is driven by how records were collected, not only by what happened — which is exactly why expected counts are worked out year by year rather than pooled.

Organisations

Colours are used on the map, the timeline and the register. The first eight are chosen to stay distinguishable for colour-blind readers; every organisation is also labelled by name, so colour is never the only cue.

Event register

Farm Attacks

A separate record of farm attacks, kept for the statistics. Admin only — nothing here appears anywhere on the public site.

This is not the memorial.

Separate from the Names List entirely. These records live in their own tables. The memorial’s pages, counts, search and sitemap never read them, so nothing here can appear as a name on the roll.
One row per incident, not per person. The victim count is what the statistics use; names are added underneath where a source gives them, so a partly-named incident still counts everyone.
Every record needs a source. A row nobody can trace back to a published report cannot be defended when the figures are challenged.
Nothing is publishable by default. Each incident and each named person carries its own switch, off until you turn it on.

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Names of those involved are added afterwards, from the register below.

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Sources

Where these records came from. If attacks and murders are collected by different people with different reach, that is a caveat the statistics have to state — which is why every row carries its origin.

Attack register

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News queue — candidate reports

Articles pulled from the news feeds because they mention a rural attack. None of this is on the memorial or in the attack register. Read the article, decide what it is, and file it through the register's own form — then record it here so the same attack is never reviewed twice. Nothing is deleted: a discarded article stays, because the discard rate is how we know the keyword list has drifted.

Two things the flags are telling you, and both have bitten this register before. wounded only means nobody was reported dead — that is an entry for the attack register, never the memorial. court report means the article's date is a hearing date, often years after the attack. Find the date of the attack in the text, and if it is not there, leave the record out rather than guessing.

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Export & Import

The roll as an Excel file. Export it, edit it anywhere, bring it back — only the cells you actually changed are written, and nothing is written until you have read the list of changes.

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Surname, Name, Date of Death, Location, Province, Method, Story and Source can be edited, and every cell somebody changes turns red automatically — the highlight is locked and cannot be cleared or painted over. ID and Photo are locked too: the ID is the only thing tying a row back to a person, and a photograph cannot come back in through a spreadsheet. Province and Method are dropdowns, because those are the only values the memorial can store.

Several people can each edit their own copy of the same file. Every copy carries a hidden record of what it looked like when it was exported, so a field you did not touch is never written back — importing your copy cannot undo somebody else's work, in any order. If two people change the same field differently, the second import refuses that one field and shows all three values for a person to settle. Nothing is decided by whoever imports last.

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To add someone, type them into the blank rows at the bottom and leave the ID empty. To remove someone, put YES in the DELETE? column — deleting the row does nothing, because a row that is simply absent is never read as a removal.

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Our SourcesOns Bronne

Where these names come from, what we can prove, and what we still cannot.

Where the names come from

We did not invent this list. It was assembled from records other people kept over decades:

Two older name lists that have been passed from hand to hand for years — one with full names, farm names and a description of what happened; the other shorter, with only a surname, initials, the nearest town and an age.
The TLU SA / Solidariteit list of incidents between 1993 and 2009. It was published at the time, and the scans are still on the Wayback Machine's public archive — anyone can fetch them and check for themselves.
Court judgments, where a case went to trial.
Published news reports.
And families themselves, who submit a name or send us a correction.

Were these names taken from someone? No — and they could not be.

A name is not anyone's property. That a person lived, and that they were killed on a particular day on a particular farm, is a fact. Nobody owns a fact. You cannot own a person's death, and you cannot steal it from anyone.

Every source we used is a document that was openly published:

The TLU SA / Solidariteit list was published at the time, and the scans sit free of charge on the Wayback Machine's public archive.
Court judgments are public record.
News reports were published to be read.

Nothing was taken from behind a paywall. Nothing was hacked. Nothing came out of anyone's private database. Everything we used, you can open and check for yourself — and we invite you to.

We also do not hide where an entry came from. Where a story comes from the TLU / Solidariteit list, the entry says so, with that record's own date beside it. Attribution is the exact opposite of theft.

And from our side: use it. We claim no ownership of these names. The names, the dates and the places are facts — they are not ours, and they are not anyone else's either. If you want to use this list to trace your own family, to hold a memorial service, to write an article, to do your own research, then go ahead. You do not have to pay and you do not have to ask permission. All we ask is that you treat it with respect, because every line on that page is a person.

If you share your own records with us, the credit is yours

Some of what this project holds was compiled by other people who did the work themselves — sat with the clippings, made the calls, kept the list going for years — and then chose to share it with us. That work belongs to them, and we record who it came from at the moment it reaches us, not years later when nobody can remember any more.

So if you have your own records and you are willing to share them, here is what we undertake:

We write down who it came from, on the record itself, as it arrives.
You are credited by name — as a person or as an organisation, exactly as you want it worded.
Unless you would rather not be. Sharing your records with us is not the same as agreeing to be named in public, and some people have good reasons to stay anonymous. We never publish a contributor's name without their say-so. If you say nothing, we treat that as no.

We also keep two further registers that are not public today: a record of farm attacks, and a record of public gatherings. Much of what goes into those has been supplied by people who compiled it themselves. If either register is ever published, the credits are published with it. That is why the contributor is recorded now, while it is still knowable.

Is it 100% accurate? No — and no one else's list is either.

There is no farm-attack list in this country that is 100% correct. Not this one, and not any other. That is not an accusation against anyone — it is simply how this data exists.

Put the sources side by side and you can see it:

The lists disagree with one another. Where two lists cover the same person, the date often differs by a day or two. We hold one man who died in 1992 according to one list and 1993 according to the other — same man, same farm, and the day and the month swapped as well. One of the two is wrong. Without a third source, nobody can tell you which.
The sources carry their own typing errors. One incident is printed as “06-Sep-03”, wedged between two incidents from September 1993 — a 9 read as a 0. It reads that way in both scans of the original document.
News reports do not always help. We entered four attacks from a single newspaper round-up and used the publication date. Three of the four were a day out. We found it and corrected it — but that is how easily it happens.
And much was simply never recorded. Around 170 people on this list will never have an anniversary, because nobody ever wrote down the day they died — only the month and the year. That is not a gap in our work. It is a gap in the record itself.

So the question is not whether a list has errors. It is what you do about them.

We never guess. If we do not know the day, it stays empty. Placing a death on the 1st of the month to fill the box would invent an anniversary on a day nobody died. We do not do it.
We publish what is missing. More than 200 entries have no exact date. More than 100 have no province. About a third carry a real story — the rest have only a name, because that is all the source gave. We do not hide it.
We take names off. Where a source shows someone does not belong on this list, they come off. One woman was recorded as a victim when the record shows she survived the attack — it was her husband who was murdered. Another man was killed walking home from a nightclub in Edenvale; a tragedy, but not a farm attack. Both were removed.
We remove duplicates. Because the lists overlap, some people appeared twice — the same person, two spellings, two dates. More than 200 such cases have been worked through one at a time. Not by a computer deciding on its own: one of us reads both records side by side and rules on them.
Every change is logged, with who made it and when.

It is not a perfect list. It is a list that is honest about where it is still empty — and that is precisely the point.

What is still missing, and where you can help

We cannot complete this list on our own. The old lists give what they give, and there it stops. What is missing can only come from people who remember it themselves — a relative, a neighbour, someone who was there.

A name that is missing. If someone you knew is not on this list, please tell us. That is the worst kind of gap.
A day. Hundreds of entries have only a month and a year. If you remember the exact day, that person can have an anniversary.
A place or a province. Many entries give only a farm name, with no town.
A photograph. Most of these people have only a name on a page. A face changes that entirely.
A story. Who they were. What they did. Not only how they died.
A source. A newspaper clipping, a case number, a report. That is what moves an entry from “somebody said so” to “here is the proof”.
A correction. If something is wrong, tell us plainly.

Thirty-one women on this list have no name of their own — only a surname and “(v)”, the Afrikaans for vrou, wife. That is how the original list recorded them: as somebody's wife, not as themselves. Each of them was someone's mother or grandmother or daughter, with a name she answered to. We have recovered ten of them so far, one at a time. If you know one of those women's names, please tell us. It is the most important work still left.

You do not have to be certain. Send us what you know, tell us how sure you are, and we will check it. Nothing is published before it has been checked.

And finally

We are not here to argue with anyone. If you find an error — a wrong date, a wrong spelling, a name that does not belong — show us, and we will correct it and thank you for it. That is exactly how this list gets better, and it has happened many times.

But if you only want to tear it down, without contributing a single name, date or source, we will not spend our time on it. We will not stop because this record makes someone uncomfortable, and we will not remove a name because someone takes offence. We remove a name when a source shows it is wrong. That is the only reason.

These people really lived, and they really died. That is the only claim this memorial makes.

Waar die name vandaan kom

Ons het nie hierdie lys uitgedink nie. Dit is saamgestel uit rekords wat ander mense oor dekades bygehou het:

Twee ouer naamlyste wat al jare lank van hand tot hand aangestuur word — die een met volle name, plaasname en 'n beskrywing van wat gebeur het; die ander korter, met net die van, voorletters, die naaste dorp en 'n ouderdom.
Die TLU SA / Solidariteit-lys van voorvalle tussen 1993 en 2009. Dit is destyds gepubliseer, en die skanderings staan vandag nog op die Wayback Machine se openbare argief — enigiemand kan dit gaan haal en self nagaan.
Hofuitsprake, waar 'n saak hof toe is.
Gepubliseerde nuusberigte.
En families self, wat 'n naam indien of vir ons 'n regstelling stuur.

Is die name by iemand gesteel? Nee — en dit kán nie.

'n Naam is nie iemand se eiendom nie. Dat 'n mens gelewe het, en dat hy op 'n bepaalde dag op 'n bepaalde plaas vermoor is — dít is 'n feit. Niemand op aarde besit 'n feit nie. Jy kan nie 'n mens se dood besit nie, en jy kan dit ook nie by iemand steel nie.

Elke bron wat ons gebruik het, is 'n dokument wat openlik gepubliseer is:

Die TLU SA / Solidariteit-lys is destyds gepubliseer, en die skanderings staan gratis op die Wayback Machine se openbare argief.
Hofuitsprake is openbare rekord.
Nuusberigte is gepubliseer om gelees te word.

Niks is agter 'n betaalmuur uitgehaal nie. Niks is gehack nie. Niks kom uit iemand se private databasis nie. Alles wat ons gebruik het, kan jy self gaan oopmaak en nagaan — en ons nooi jou uit om dit te doen.

Ons steek ook nie weg waar 'n inskrywing vandaan kom nie. Waar 'n storie van die TLU / Solidariteit-lys af kom, staan dit so op die inskrywing self, met daardie rekord se eie datum daarby. Erkenning is die presiese teenoorgestelde van steel.

En van ons kant af: vat dit gerus. Ons maak geen aanspraak op hierdie name nie. Die name, die datums en die plekke is feite — hulle is nie ons s'n nie, en ook nie iemand anders s'n nie. Wil jy die lys gebruik om jou eie familie na te gaan, om 'n gedenkdiens te hou, om 'n artikel te skryf, om jou eie navorsing te doen? Gaan gerus. Jy hoef nie te betaal nie en jy hoef nie toestemming te vra nie. Al wat ons vra, is dat jy dit met respek hanteer, want elke reël op daardie bladsy is 'n mens.

Deel jy jou eie rekords met ons, dan is die erkenning joune

'n Deel van wat hierdie projek hou, is deur ander mense saamgestel wat die werk self gedoen het — met die knipsels gesit, die oproepe gemaak, die lys jare lank aan die gang gehou — en dit toe met ons gedeel het. Daardie werk behoort aan hulle, en ons teken aan van wie dit af kom op die oomblik dat dit by ons opdaag, nie jare later wanneer niemand meer kan onthou nie.

Het jy dus jou eie rekords en is jy bereid om dit te deel, dan onderneem ons die volgende:

Ons skryf neer van wie dit af kom, op die rekord self, soos dit inkom.
Jy kry erkenning by die naam — as persoon of as organisasie, presies soos jy dit bewoord wil hê.
Tensy jy liewer nie wil nie. Om jou rekords met ons te deel, is nie dieselfde as om in te stem om in die openbaar genoem te word nie, en party mense het goeie redes om anoniem te bly. Ons plaas nooit 'n bydraer se naam sonder sy of haar toestemming nie. Sê jy niks, hanteer ons dit as 'n nee.

Ons hou ook twee verdere registers wat vandag nie publiek is nie: 'n rekord van plaasaanvalle, en 'n rekord van openbare byeenkomste. Baie van wat daarin gaan, is verskaf deur mense wat dit self saamgestel het. Word enige van daardie registers ooit gepubliseer, word die erkennings saam daarmee gepubliseer. Dis juis hoekom die bydraer nóú aangeteken word, terwyl dit nog naspeurbaar is.

Is dit 100% akkuraat? Nee — en niemand anders s'n ook nie.

Daar is nie 'n plaasaanval-lys in hierdie land wat 100% korrek is nie. Nie hierdie een nie, en ook nie enige ander een nie. Dis nie 'n aanklag teen enigiemand nie — dis bloot hoe hierdie data bestaan.

Sit die bronne langs mekaar, en jy sien dit:

Die lyste stem nie met mekaar saam nie. Waar twee lyste dieselfde mens dek, verskil die datum gereeld met 'n dag of twee. Ons het een man wat volgens die een lys in 1992 dood is en volgens die ander in 1993 — dieselfde mens, dieselfde plaas, en die dag en die maand is boonop omgeruil. Een van die twee is verkeerd. Sonder 'n derde bron kan niemand vir jou sê watter een nie.
Die bronne het hulle eie tikfoute. Een voorval staan gedruk as “06-Sep-03”, vasgedruk tussen twee voorvalle van September 1993 — 'n 9 wat as 'n 0 gelees is. Dit staan so in albei skanderings van die oorspronklike dokument.
Nuusberigte help nie altyd nie. Ons het self vier aanvalle uit een koerantberig ingesleutel en die publikasiedatum gebruik. Drie van die vier was 'n dag verkeerd. Ons het dit gekry en reggemaak — maar dít is hoe maklik dit gebeur.
En baie is eenvoudig nooit aangeteken nie. Ongeveer 170 mense op hierdie lys sal nooit 'n herdenkingsdag kan hê nie, want niemand het ooit die dag neergeskryf waarop hulle dood is nie — net die maand en die jaar. Dis nie 'n gaping in ons werk nie. Dis 'n gaping in die rekord self.

Die vraag is dus nie of 'n lys foute het nie. Dis wat jy dáármee doen.

Ons raai nooit nie. Ken ons nie die dag nie, bly dit oop. Om 'n sterfdatum op die 1ste van die maand te sit sodat die blokkie vol is, sou 'n herdenking uitdink op 'n dag waarop niemand dood is nie. Ons doen dit nie.
Ons wys wat kortkom. Meer as 200 inskrywings het nie 'n presiese datum nie. Meer as 100 het nie 'n provinsie nie. Sowat 'n derde dra 'n regte storie — die res het net 'n naam, want dis al wat die bron gegee het. Ons steek dit nie weg nie.
Ons haal name af. Waar 'n bron wys iemand hoort nie op hierdie lys nie, gaan hulle af. Een vrou is as slagoffer aangeteken terwyl die rekord wys sy hét die aanval oorleef — dit was haar man wat vermoor is. 'n Ander man is op pad huis toe van 'n klub in Edenvale vermoor; hartseer, maar nie 'n plaasaanval nie. Albei is verwyder.
Ons haal dubbels uit. Omdat die lyste oorvleuel, het party mense twee keer verskyn — dieselfde persoon, twee spellings, twee datums. Meer as 200 sulke gevalle is een vir een deurgewerk. Nie deur 'n rekenaar wat self besluit nie: een van ons lees albei rekords langs mekaar en beslis daaroor.
Elke verandering word gelog, met wie dit gedoen het en wanneer.

Dis nie 'n perfekte lys nie. Dis 'n lys wat eerlik is oor waar hy nog leeg is — en dít is juis die punt.

Wat nog kortkom, en waar jy kan help

Ons kan hierdie lys nie alleen volledig maak nie. Die ou lyste gee wat hulle gee, en daar hou dit op. Wat kortkom, kan net kom van mense wat dit self onthou — 'n familielid, 'n buurman, iemand wat daar was.

'n Naam wat kortkom. As iemand wat jy geken het nie op hierdie lys is nie, sê asseblief. Dis die ergste soort gaping.
'n Dag. Honderde inskrywings het net 'n maand en 'n jaar. As jy die presiese dag onthou, kan daardie mens 'n herdenkingsdag kry.
'n Plek of 'n provinsie. Baie inskrywings gee net 'n plaasnaam, sonder 'n dorp.
'n Foto. Die meeste van hierdie mense het net 'n naam op 'n bladsy. 'n Gesig verander dit heeltemal.
'n Storie. Wie hulle was. Wat hulle gedoen het. Nie net hoe hulle dood is nie.
'n Bron. 'n Koerantknipsel, 'n saaknommer, 'n berig. Dis wat 'n inskrywing skuif van “iemand het dit gesê” na “hier is die bewys”.
'n Regstelling. As iets verkeerd is, sê dit reguit vir ons.

Een-en-dertig vroue op hierdie lys het nie 'n eie naam nie — net 'n van en “(v)”, vir vrou. Dis hoe die oorspronklike lys hulle aangeteken het: as iemand se vrou, nie as hulleself nie. Elkeen van hulle was iemand se ma of ouma of dogter, met 'n naam waarop sy geantwoord het. Ons het al tien van hulle name teruggekry, een vir een. As jy een van daardie vroue se naam ken, sê asseblief vir ons. Dis die belangrikste werk wat nog oor is.

Jy hoef nie seker te wees nie. Stuur vir ons wat jy weet, sê vir ons hoe seker jy is, en ons gaan dit na. Niks word geplaas voor dit nagegaan is nie.

En laastens

Ons is nie hier om met iemand te stry nie. Kry jy 'n fout — 'n verkeerde datum, 'n verkeerde spelling, 'n naam wat nie daar hoort nie — wys dit vir ons, en ons maak dit reg en sê dankie daarvoor. Dis presies hoe hierdie lys beter word, en dit het al baie keer so gebeur.

Maar as jy net wil afbreek, sonder om een naam, een datum of een bron by te dra, dan gaan ons nie ons tyd daaraan gee nie. Ons gaan nie ophou omdat hierdie rekord iemand ongemaklik maak nie, en ons gaan nie 'n naam afhaal omdat iemand aanstoot neem nie. Ons haal 'n naam af wanneer 'n bron wys dit is verkeerd. Dis die enigste rede.

Hierdie mense het regtig gelewe, en hulle is regtig dood. Dít is die enigste saak wat hierdie gedenkmuur maak.

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Waar die name vandaan kom

Is die name by iemand gesteel? Nee — en dit kán nie.

Deel jy jou eie rekords met ons, dan is die erkenning joune

Is dit 100% akkuraat? Nee — en niemand anders s'n ook nie.

Die vraag is dus nie of 'n lys foute het nie. Dis wat jy dáármee doen.

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