On Friday the country stood on edge as members of the EFF descended on the small eastern Free State town of Senekal, where three weeks ago a white farmer was killed. The killing sparked protests by White Afrikaner farmers and right-wing groups such as AfriForum, who insist on propagating the false narrative of large-scale and systematic farm attacks in the country.

I wrote about this in my column last week. My position is clear: there are high levels of violence in our country, but there is no systematic killing of white farmers, and statistical evidence demonstrates this fact...