Five South African Boer activists accused of “inciting violence” for the crime of protesting are due to face trial on Oct. 14. Defendant Willem Petzer accused authorities of “torture” while they were in prison.
Five Afrikaner activists were arrested and charged with “inciting violence” for protesting outside a courthouse in Groblersdal, Limpopo (former Northern Transvaal) on Jan. 24 after two White farmers were arrested in an altercation with a Black farm worker, as The Gateway Pundit reported.
Farmers Piet Groenewald (63) and stepson Stephan Greef (27) were arrested and accused of sic’ing a dog on a Black farm worker in Grobersdal in a violent altercation on Jan. 17. The farmers claimed the farm worker Veneruru Kavari (30) was drunk and destructive, and attacked them with a panga (machete) and a pick axe handle. Accusations of White farmers sic’ing dogs on Black workers are heavily racially charged due to Apartheid history in South Africa.
Local Afrikaners believed the two men were arrested because they were White. About 100 Afrikaner supporters gathered outside the Groblersdal courthouse on January 24 to protest what they viewed as racially motivated arrests. Authorities accused five of them, including YouTuber Willem Petzer and the son of country music star Steve Hofmeyr, Devon Hofmeyer, of “inciting violence”, despite no evidence they had done anything of the sort.