Facts Check: Tramp Video not proves « Genocide » – The World

The American President Donald Tramp presented serious accusations during the visit of the South African President Ramafose White House. He argued that mass killings of white farmers happen in South Africa.

But the narrative that the white population systematically and deliberately destroys is not supported by facts and official statistics. Such claims have been circulating for years and are connected to the racist conspiracy theory of « Great Replace ».

The claim: « These are cemeteries. Thousands of white crosses. These are all white farmers and their families. They are all killed. » Thus, the American president commented on the video shown during the meeting with South African President 21. May in the White House.

DW Checking Facts: Incorrect

The tramp claim circled social networks and before Ramaphosine visits to the United States of America. Thus, one user of the IX platform is another 12. May announced that every cross represents a killed white farmer in South Africa. The video was reviewed nearly 55 million times (according to data from 22. May).

By searching images on the Internet, it turned out that video material with white crosses were on the way, which tramp used, already circulating social networks 2020. and 2023. years. Years. It’s not what Tramp claims, about the graves more than a thousand killed farmers.

« Ramafoso, how many more do they have to die? »

Scenes actually show the protest action near the South African city of Newcastle 5. September 2020. The protest provoked the murder of marital couple Glen and Vida Rafererti on their farm in August that year.

The South African newspaper, freight vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, scooters, motorcycles, tractors, scooters, motorcycles, sedan, (5. September) were part of the Protesting Bridge over the Horn river, volunteers along the road set hundreds Symbolic wooden crosses. Halfway to Hanover, a farm killed by Glen and Vida Raferert, was set up a huge banner: ‘President Ramafoso, how many more has to die?’ « 

In the second part of the footage used by Tramp, the South African politician Julius Malem, which pronounces slogan: « Kill The Boer, Kill The Farmer » (Kill Bura, Kill Farmers).

The recordings were made at the National FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, where the left-oriented South African Fighters for Economic Freedom (Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF) in August 2023. celebrated its tenth anniversary. The South African broadcaster SABC News reported the event, but also the other media.

Hateful speech

Julius Malem was a member of the South African’s ruling party African National Congress (ANC) before the establishment of EFF, but in 2012. expelled from the party. The song is an old combat Poklič from the time of apartheid and declared a hate speech several times in the South Africa.

South African President Ramafos immediately, after showing video, distanced from statements in it. « You are spoken not part of the government’s policy, » said President.

And the South African Farmer Te de Jeger told Deutsa, said there was no genocide over white farmers in his country. After Tramp recently offered asylum in the United States, De Jeger wrote his open letter.

« I wrote a tramp letter, because I’m afraid he doesn’t understand wholly what’s going on, » he said for DW. « We would rather see how to take the specific improvements to our situation, so that we can solve our problems alone. It is not just about racism, because black farmers also have similar problems. »

The distribution of land in South Africa remains extremely uneven, more than 30 years after the abolition of apartheid. According to the 2017 South African government report, whites own about 72 percent of agricultural land, and black South Africans only about four percent individually registered farms. White South Africans make only 7.8 percent of the total population of South Africa.