A hillside of white crosses fuels a misleading story about South Africa's farm killings
MOKOPANE, South Africa — The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a reminder of a terrible story of a person being killed.
But the crosses, nearly 3,000 of them, do not tell the full story of South Africa's farm killings.
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