Farm murders are the only violent crime in South Africa where some believe it is acceptable and praiseworthy to call the victims liars. Farm murders are the only violent crime that some journalists joke about on social media. Farm murders are the only violent crime where those who raise awareness are shamelessly insulted, mocked, slandered, and investigated by the police for "high treason". Farm murders are the only violent crime where an insane level of proof is demanded. Farm murders are the only violent crime where journalists go out of their way to try to destroy the lives of those private citisens who dare try to bring international awareness to the issue online. Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like "Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer". Farm murders are the only violent crime that is openly denied by the president of South Africa. "There are no murdering of white farmers in South Africa" - President Ramaphosa, New York (2018). Farm murders are the only violent crime where the knee-jerk reaction of some is to immediately dismiss it by reciting South Africa’s general murder statistics like a mantra. Farm murders are the only violent crime of a unique nature that the SA government refuses to classify under National Priority Offences - crimes that get a specialised counter strategy - as outlined by the Police Act. Rhino poaching and GBV, for example, are Priority Crimes. Enough.

South African local government officials have condemned citisens planting trees in potholes as a form of protest against abysmal service delivery in Tshwane Metro as "vandalism".