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Donald Trump attacked South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa with a white genocide video. It had many falsehoods

Donald Trump attacked South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa with a white genocide video. It had many falsehoods

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Washington:

US President Donald Trump attacked his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday with a video with which unfounded claims of “persecution” of white farmers are to be supported.

Trump intended the 4: 30-minute video, which was played in the White House at her meeting and which has been widespread on social media in the past few weeks, to be proof of a campaign in order to kill white farmers in what he says is to be a “genocide”.

But the video contained many falsehoods.

The crosses are not gravessites

A clip shows white crosses that were built along a winding road, on which dozens of cars and trucks are lined up.

“These are burial sites,” said Trump. “These cars are … stopped to pay respect for their killed family members.”

The film material comes from a protest from 2020, in which after the murder of a couple on their farm in Normandia after videos and press articles from time to be placed on a rural road.

They do not mark the places of graves.

The murderers were convicted of lifelong imprisonment in 2022.

The politician presented is not in the government

Another scene corresponds to Trump's claims that the government unfolds white farms and shows a politician who says: “South Africans occupy country, that's us.”

“These are people who are officers,” said Trump.

But the speaker is not in the government. He is the leader of the radical opposition of Economic Freedom Fights (Eff), Julius Malema.

The Eff was fourth place in the elections of last year with only 9.5 percent of the votes. It has never been in the government.

'Kill the Buren' is an anti-apartheid singing

Malema is shown in the video in which a notorious song “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” is sung.

Trump suggested that this was a real call to kill Boers, the farmers of Africa's minority that led the previous apartheid government.

The extremely controversial vocals are for decades and was a rally scream during the fight against white minority rule, which ended in 1994.

There were several request that it was forbidden, but the courts decided that it should be taken into account in its historical context.

A picture from the Democratic Republic of Congo

After Trump showed the video, Trump highly held up a stack of printed items, of which he claimed that he had documented murders in South Africa for agricultural ways.

Among them was a blog post about tribalism in Africa from a little-known website called “American Thinker”, with a photo showing the members of the Red Cross in white hazmat suits with the handling bags.

“Here are burial sites everywhere, these are white farmers who are buried,” said Trump.

But the picture is a screen grave from a YouTube video in February by workers of the Red Cross, who came to life after its rape and lively everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo of Goma.

The grave came from a blog post published by Indian News Outlet Wion, which was provided by Reuters.

White farmers are not killed in large numbers “

“These people are killed in large numbers,” said Trump, showing the articles he claimed, which he reported on the murders of “thousands of” white farmers.

While the farmers have been killed, their number are low in the larger context of crimes in South Africa, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world.

The African lobby group Afriiforum, which has long pushed a campaign to light on agricultural murders, counted 49 such murders in 2023.

In comparison, the police recorded a total of 27,621 murders between April 2023 and March 2024 – killed about 75 people every day. Most victims are young black men in urban areas.

(With the exception of the heading, this story was not edited by NDTV employees and is published from a syndicated feed.)


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