This is a good article from the Atlantic covering farm attacks and race relations in South Africa. It is respectful of the trauma and horrific suffering of the victims of farm attacks, while also presenting a broader context in which this violence happens which is relevant for how we should think about classifying these attacks.
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The essential problem seems to be that dysfunction breeds more dysfunction. Apartheid leads to weak institutions, which leads to state failure, which leads to vigilantism and white nationalist enclavism.
Our international system can come down hard on other kinds of failure. But there’s no lever that can force a state to be less dysfunctional. Even in the developed west we’re backsliding into dysfunction. It seems to be the default, the rule and not the exception.