STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Here's a look at some of the claims made by Trump about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority.
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Number one: There is a genocide of white farmers in South Africa.
TRUMP: “…this persecution or genocide going on.”
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This conspiracy theory has been propagated by some fringe groups of white South Africans since the end of apartheid in 1994.
It's been circulating in global far-right chat rooms for at least a decade.
Supporters point to murders of white farmers in remote, rural areas as proof of a politically orchestrated campaign, rather than ordinary violent crime, and accuse the government of being complicit.
The government strongly denies this.
South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates and police recorded over 26,000 murders in 2024.
Forty-four were linked to farming communities and of those eight were farmers.
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Data collected by white farmers themselves also does not support the notion of genocide.
RAMAPHOSA: “People who do get killed, unfortunately through criminal activity are not only white people, the majority of them are black people.
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