‘White genocide' in South Africa is not real, court rules in estate case
A South African court has dismissed claims of a 'white genocide' in the country as 'clearly imagined and not real,' as part of a ruling that blocked a bequest to an organization described in court documents as a white-supremacist group.
In his will, a man named Grantland Michael Bray left part of his estate to Boerelegioen, a group he allegedly said would 'exterminate every black person in South Africa,' according to court documents. Boerelegioen, which describes itself on its website as a 'civil defense movement,' says it enables resistance against 'the promised slaughter of whites' in South Africa and 'the theft of their property.'
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