How Trump has incorrectly presented pictures to support allegations of “white genocide” in South Africa, including Congo video

In his Oval Office Meeting Wednesday with the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Trump reproached the persecution of the white farmers in South Africa, which he previously justified Grant refugee status To a group of Africans at the beginning of this month.

Ramaphosa denied that there is a genocide and some Africans say Mr. Trump is lied to About a “white genocide” in the country.

According to the South African police, 12 people were murdered on farms in South Africa in the last three months of 2024. One was a white farmer while the other black workers or security staff were, the police said. According to some estimates, there have been about 50 farm orders per year in recent years, but they do not set any races. According to police dates, the country had almost 27,000 murders last year.

Mr. Trump played videos and stopped articles during the meeting of the White House this week to support his unfounded claims. But a lot of what he showed was illustrated incorrectly. Here are three examples:

Reuters film material of the bodies in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Mr. Trump held a printed article by “American Thinker”, a conservative online magazine that contained a screenshot that was attributed to Reuters and he said that the president showed “all white farmers who are buried”.

But the video from which the screenshot was recorded came from humanitarian workers who raise corpse bags in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said Reuters. The film material was recorded in February after fatal battles with a Congolese rebel group supported by Rwanda in the city of Goma.

The article “American Denker” acted on both the Congo and South Africa, but the picture does not show South Africa. Andrea Widburg, managing director of “American Thinker” and the author of the post office, said Reuters that Mr. Trump “misinformed” the picture.

White crosses

Mr. Trump claimed to see pictures of white crosses that were shown in the video played with Ramaphosa during his meeting, showed graves from white farmers. However, the crosses were symbolic, part of a protest in 2020 after the murder of a white agricultural couple, according to local media reporting. One participant said that they would have represented all murders of agricultural murders over the years, not only white farmers.

The demonstration, which took place near Normandia, South Africa, asked the government to take more measures against agricultural murders.

Ramaphosa recognized a problem of crime in his country.

“There is crime in our country,” he said to Mr. Trump. “People who are unfortunately killed by criminal activities are not only white people. Most of them are black people.”

Rally film material of the marginal politician

The video, which Mr. Trump presented, included Julius Malema clips, the leader of a much left -wing South African political party, the economic freedom fighter. He can be heard as he sings an anti-apartheid song that contains the poetry “Kill the Boer”, which refers to white farmers, in several clips from recent years.

Malema was thrown from Ramaphosa's government party, African National Congress 13 years ago, and Ramaphosa said the Eff was a “small minority party” that the government does not represent. The ANC also distanced itself from the song more than a decade ago.

In an explanation of Reuters after the meeting between Mr. Trump and Ramaphosa, the Eff said that the song “expresses the desire to destroy the system of control of the white minority over the resources of South Africa”.

Three South African courts have decided against attempts to call them hate speech, and said that it was a historical vocals, not a literal annex to violence, Reuters reported.

Erielle Delzer, Emma Li and Debora Patta contributed to this report.