22-05-2025
Five false claims by Trump during Ramaphosa meeting
South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates, with an average of 72 a day, in a country of 60-million people. Most victims are black.
South African police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide in 2024, of which 44 were linked to farming communities. Of those, eight of the victims were farmers.
The Western Cape High Court ruled that claims of white genocide were 'clearly imagined and not real' in a case earlier this year, forbidding a donation to a white supremacist group on those grounds. 2. The government is expropriating land from white farmers without compensation, including through violent land seizures, to distribute it to blacks
The government has a policy of attempting to redress inequalities in land ownership that are a legacy of apartheid and colonialism. But no land has been expropriated, and the government has instead tried to encourage white farmers to sell their land willingly.
That hasn't worked. Some three-quarters of privately-owned farmland is still in the hands of whites, who make up less than 8% of the population, while 4% is owned by blacks who make up 80%.
In an effort to address this, Ramaphosa signed a law in January allowing the state to expropriate land 'in the public interest', in rare cases without compensating the owner. The law requires authorities to first try to reach an agreement. It still hasn't been used. 3. The 'Kill the Boer' song sung by some black South Africans is an explicit call to murder Afrikaners who own most of the farmland
The song dates back to the resistance against apartheid, when Afrikaner nationalists controlled the country. In one of the video clips Trump showed, firebrand EFF leader Julius Malema is singing the song.
