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Australia's home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, reiterated his own earlier comments that Canberra was looking at ways of fast-tracking "in-country persecution" visas for white South African farmers to travel to Australia as part of a refugee or humanitarian program.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who oversees immigration and has drawn global criticism for heading a tough crackdown on asylum-seekers from Asia and the Middle East, said the South Africans deserve "special attention" for acceptance on refugee or humanitarian grounds.
The department of global relations and cooperation (Dirco) has slammed statements made by an Australian politician, who says his country is examining the fast-tracking of visas for white South African farmers because of the dangers they apparently face in South Africa.
"I do think, on the information I've seen, people do need our help and they need help from a civilised country like ours", Mr Dutton had said, suggesting an announcement could be made soon about special visa support.
The South African government has emphasized that the land appropriation would be done within the confines of the law and not disturb the country's economic performance.
Normally South Africans have to apply under other categories, including as a skilled worker or through family connections.
By contrast just four percent of such land is owned by black people, according to an audit cited by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
"If you look at the footage and read the stories, you hear the accounts, it's a horrific circumstance they face", Dutton told The Daily Telegraph.
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"That threat does not exist", the South African foreign ministry in Pretoria told Reuters.
Some Australian media have reported recently that an average of one white farmer a week is murdered in South Africa and that over 400 were attacked in 2017.
The ruling African National Congress announced at its conference in December that it would press ahead with plans to amend the constitution to allow for redistribution of land without compensation to the affected owner.
The South African government has not yet spelt out exactly how land would be redistributed.
"We can not have a situation where we allow land grabs, because that is anarchy", Mr Ramaphosa said.
While we can not deny the farm murders claims raised by the Australian minister, The Guardian newspaper says, "Gareth Newham of the Institute for Security Studies, one of South Africa's leading authorities on crime statistics, said there was no evidence to support the notion that white farmers were targeted more than anyone else in the country".
"It must serve as a warning that South Africa runs the risk to lose even more productive, loyal citizens should their concerns about issues such as property rights not be listened to", said AfriForum's deputy chief executive Alana Bailey.
Fact-checking organisation Africa Check, in a detailed report on the subject of farm murders in general - not just of white farmers - suggested that another credible estimate of the farm murder rate could be as low as 0.4 murders per 100,000 people. Again, the numbers are contested - the South African government says only 8 per cent of farmland is in black hands, based on title deeds.
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