Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Australia is being “inundated” with white South Africans who have fled their farms, repeating a baseless conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being systematically murdered and their land expropriated.
The US president held a chaotic meeting with the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office of the White House, during which played a video he falsely claimed proved “genocide” was being committed against white people in South Africa, under what he described as “the opposite of apartheid”.
Trump has long maintained that Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists who ruled South Africa during its decades of racial apartheid, are being persecuted. South Africa rejects the allegation. Murder and violent crime rates are high in the country but the overwhelming majority of victims are Black.
But Trump told Ramaphosa that white farmers were fleeing South Africa for the US and Australia.
“You’re taking people’s land and those people in many cases are being executed,” he said.
“They’re being executed. And they happen to be white, and most of them happen to be farmers.
“We have thousands of people who want to come into our country. They are also going to Australia, in smaller numbers.”
Trump later said vast numbers of white South African farmers were fleeing to Australia.
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