The day before she was killed Annette Kennealy had posted an article on Facebook about a reported rise in farm attacks

A South African woman who regularly spoke out about attacks against the country’s white farmers has been found dead on her land in Limpopo province.

Annette Kennealy, 51, was a former councillor with the opposition Democratic Alliance party and often posted on social media about crimes targeting South African farms, most of which are owned by white people. A police spokesman told local media that Ms Kennealy was staying with an employee on her farm in the town of Louis Trichardt, about 240 miles north of Johannesburg, when she was attacked. A friend found her body with multiple wounds.

An iron rod and a hammer were used in the attack, according to Ian Cameron, who heads the Community Safety division of AfriForum, a group