Donald Trump has shown the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office. The American president denounced his counterpart not to do nothing against a “genocide of white farmers” in his country. To do this, he rumbled “evidence”, which are not a further inspection.
Trump did it again. He played a guest in the White House for the mounted press. But he was not really successful. But from the front: what had happened?
The US President accused the South African delegation in the Oval Office on Wednesday evening “Genozide of White Peasants” and presented Ramaphosa and the press releases, videos and social media messages, which comments on “Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death”. After a further investigation, however, his evidence appears to be actually wrong or torn from the context.
Suddenly it got dark
To the surprise of his guests in the Oval Office, Trump had dimmed the light to show those present a number of videos. One of them shows the then South African President Jacob Zuma during a celebration on the occasion of the 100 -year anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) in November 2012, in which he tuned the controversial apartheid song “Dubul” Ibhunu (such as “Kill The Buren”).
The scene described in the video:
Trump had also played a clip through a speech that held the controversial communist oppositional Julius Malema in November 2022. South African delegation members immediately pointed out that both do not perform political offices in the Ramaphosa cabinet.
This was followed by a video on social media in which white crosses were seen in the South African landscape. Trump claimed that this was a grave for “thousands of” white farmers and their families. In the video you can see a temporary commemorative gearbox in media reports, a protest that took place on 6 September 2020 near Newcastle (province of Kwazulu-Natal) after the murder of a white Boerpaar.
The crosses were removed after the campaign in which black and white people participated. So they do not represent graves. Ramaphosa said that the recordings were not yet aware of the recordings.
The American president and his “proof”
After playing the videos, Trump was transferred by his vice president JD Vance Printing Vater articles. The first document that Trump kept in the camera is due to a Facebook message on May 19. The divided photo shows the faces of a South African couple, which according to the posts was attacked in Mbombela. The couple still lived, although Trump declared it dead.
Trump commented on another article that deals with the arrival of 49 white South Africans at Washington airport in Dulles (US State Virginia): “This family was wiped out.” However, there are no reports, not even from the right blogger scene.
An expression that Trump presented as supposed proof of the genocide comes from the American blog “American Thinker”. The blog post focuses on tribalism (great importance of tribal relationships) in Africa, but offers no sources that can verify the alleged genocide of white farmers in South Africa. The photo of the article that Trump has stopped comes from a YouTube video that tackles murders and rapes of women in Congo.
Seven killed farmers in the previous year
According to the official crime statistics of the South African police, 19,696 murders were registered last year from April to December. There were seven farmers of those who are often white in South Africa. The other 29 victims were usually employees, many of them are black. A large part of the agricultural area is still the property of the white minority.
In crime statistics, the skin color or ethnic origin of the victims of murder is not mentioned. The photo seems comparable a year earlier. According to “NBC” there were nearly 300 farms in white real estate throughout South Africa, killing 49 people. For classification: in 2023, South Africa registered 75 murders per day.
Born in South Africa Elon Musk, the resident of the state was also present. In the past, Musk had already spread the extremist story of the straight roads over the “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa. Trump himself started the claim in a tweet from 2018.
Source: Krone
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
