In it Oval office meeting On Wednesday with South Africa President Kirill Ramaphosa, President Trump has been charged with pursuing white farmers in South Africa, which he used to justify providing refugee status to the African group earlier this month.
Ramaphos denied that there is a genocide and some Africans say Mr. Trump is lying About “white genocide” in the country.
Over the last three months of 2024, 12 people have been killed on the South African farms, South Africa's police reports. One was a white farmer and the rest were black workers or security workers, police said. Some assessment For example, in recent years there have been about 50 murder of farms a year, but they do not determine the race. According to police, there were almost 27,000 murders in the country.
This week, Mr. Trump lost the video and held articles during the White House meeting to support his unjustified requirements. But most of what he showed was incorrectly presented. Here are three examples:
Reuters footage of bodies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mr. Trump raised a printed article from the Magazine “The American Thinner”, which included a screenshot that credited Reuters, which, according to the President, showed that “all white farmers who are buried.”
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But the video from which a screenshot was made was made by humanitarian workers who raised body bags in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Told Reuters. The footage was made in February after the deadly battles with the Congolese insurgent group supported by Rwanda in Homo.
The article “American thinker” was about Congo, and South Africa, but the picture did not shown South Africa. Andrea Vladyburg, head of the editor of the “American thinker” and the author “Mail”, said Reuters that Mr. Trump “incorrectly identified the image”.
Line of white crosses
Mr. Trump claimed that the images of white crosses, noticed in the video, lost during a meeting with Ramaphos, showed the burial places of white farmers. However crosses were symbolic, part protest In 2020, after the murder of a white agricultural couple, local media reported. A said the participant For many years, they have represented all the murder of the farm, not exclusively white farmers.
The demonstration that took place near Normandiyen, South Africa, called on the government to take more action against murder in agriculture.
Ramaphos acknowledged the problem of crimes in his country.
“There is crime in our country,” he said Mr. Trump. “People who are really killed through criminal activity are not only white people. Most of them are black people.”
Rally frames of fringe policies
The video presented by Mr. Trump included the clips of Julius Malem, the leader of the leftist political party of South Africa, and economic freedom fighters. He hears the song against the apartheid, which includes the lyrics: “Kill the storm”, citing white farmers, in several clips of recent years.
Malem was expelled from Ramaphos ruling, 13 years ago, the African National Congress, and Ramaphos said Eff is a “small minority batch” that does not represent the government. Anc too departed from the song More than ten years ago.
In a statement by Reuters after Mr Trump and Ramaphos' meeting, Eff said the song “expresses the desire to destroy the White Minority Control system over South Africa's resources.”
Three South African courts ruled against attempts to be appointed speech, stating that it was a historical singing, not a literal incitement to violence, Reuters reports.
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He contributed to this report.