Plaasmoorde: Slagoffers vertel self deur Carla van der Spuy

Plaasmoorde: Slagoffers vertel self  deur Carla van der Spuy
Beskikbaar: Maart 2020

Plaasmoorde: Slagoffers vertel self gaan nie oor die beskrywing van grusame aanvalle, moorde en letsels nie. Hierin word die verhale van mense se seerkry én opstaan vertel; van lewenslange posttraumatiesestresversteuring; boere se woede teen wat hulle beskou as ’n onsimpatieke regering; en ander se soeke na vergifnis.

Tien boere se unieke verhale is opgeteken en poog om die kollig op die slagoffers van plaasaanvalle te plaas.

“Om te boer word vandag as die gevaarlikste beroep in Suid-Afrika beskou.” Met dié harde woorde lei bekende joernalis en skrywer Carla van der Spuy haar boek Plaasmoorde: Slagoffers vertel self in.

Ontmoet die mense agter die statistiek van plaasaanvalle en vind uit hoe hulle met die werklikheid na afloop van ’n aanval en moord moet aangaan.

“Die boek gaan oor die boere en hulle gesinne se emosies en hoe hulle hierdie verskriklike misdade verwerk. Stories met hart,” verduidelik Van der Spuy.

Die boek is ook beskikbaar in Engels as Farm murders: Victims tell their stories.

Farm Murders: Victims tell their stories - Carla van der Spuy
Available: March 2020

Farming is the most dangerous profession in South Africa - fact. Approximately two thousand farmers and farmworkers have been killed or maimed during the past two decades -  fact. This is about as much most of us know or want to know about farm attacks in South Africa. But what about the victims' lives afterwards? What about the ones who watched their loved ones being brutalised?

We seldom hear from the surviving victims. For example, do they stay on the farm, or do they leave? What is their quality of life afterwards? "Farm Murders" is a collection of ten stories of the survivors. It was obtained with extensive interviews by Carla van der Spuy, whose journalistic background and her own family's history in farming endeared her to this project.

The book is also available in Afrikaans as Plaasmoorde: Slagoffers vertel self.