NEW: Farm attacks show how criminality is engulfing SA citizens - SAHRC

Johannesburg - Farm attacks showed how criminality in South Africa was engulfing its citizens, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Thursday.

Since the start of the year, there have been 148 farm attacks, with 33 murders taking place.

"We cannot afford farmers, farm workers, farming communities [to be ] attacked, and their lives are taken at will because this is where we see how the criminality in our country is engulfing us," commissioner Danny Titus told media and farming sector stakeholders.

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