23-05-2025
Trump's image of ‘dead white farmers' came from DRC, not SA
Andrea Widburg, managing editor at American Thinker and author of the post in question, wrote in reply to a Reuters query that Trump had "misidentified the image".
She added, however, that the post, which referred to what it called Ramaphosa's "dysfunctional, race-obsessed Marxist government", had "pointed out the increasing pressure placed on white South Africans".
The footage from which the picture was taken shows a mass burial after an M23 assault on Goma, filmed by Reuters video journalist Djaffar Al Katanty.
"That day it was extremely difficult for journalists to get in. I had to negotiate directly with M23 and coordinate with the International Committee of the Red Cross to be allowed to film," Al Katanty said. "Only Reuters has video."
Al Katanty said seeing Trump holding the article with the screengrab of his video came as a shock.
"In view of all the world, President Trump used my image, used what I filmed in the DRC to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country, white people are being killed by black people," Al Katanty said.
