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Trump Highlights Videos of Controversial South African Politician to Support Claims of Danger to White Farmers

    Trump seizes on videos of a fringe South African politician as evidence of threats to white farmers
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    NEW YORK – President Donald Trump addressed concerns with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday regarding allegations that white farmers in South Africa are being targeted and killed. The basis of Trump’s claim, presented through a video during their meeting in the Oval Office, consisted largely of speeches by a politician expelled from Ramaphosa’s party. This individual is not part of the ruling coalition and their political organization received less than 10% of the votes in the previous year’s elections.

    The Trump administration has leveraged the outspoken opinions of this fringe politician and the issue of violence in South Africa to justify allowing white South Africans to seek refugee status in the United States. This is occurring while the U.S. restricts all other refugees and is in the process of removing immigrants like those Afghans who aided the U.S. military.

    Some supporters of Trump have cited Julius Malema’s far-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as evidence that a genocide against white farmers is happening in South Africa. This claim seemed perplexing to Malema’s main political opponent, Ramaphosa, during his visit to the Oval Office. Ramaphosa emphasized repeatedly that the EFF is “a small minority party.”

    Trump seems to be relying on representations from certain wealthy white South Africans, including his close adviser, Elon Musk, who was at Wednesday’s meeting and has repeatedly posted clips of Malema singing an old anti-apartheid song with the lyrics “kill the Boer” and “shoot the Boer” on his X account. Boer refers to the country’s white farmers.

    “Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted in March alongside a video of the song. “Where is the outrage? Why is there no coverage by the legacy media?”

    When a reporter asked Trump for his view on whether a genocide is underway in South Africa, he said, “I haven’t made up my mind.”

    The Oval Office video ended with an aerial shot of a line of white crosses along a road that Trump claimed showed burial sites for white farmers killed in South Africa. Local news reports from the country show that the crosses instead were part of a demonstration in 2020 after a white couple was killed on their farm. The video gained new life earlier this year and has been posted by Musk.

    Ramaphosa seemed baffled by the video, turning to Trump as it was being shown before saying, “I’d like to know where that is, because this I’ve never seen.”

    The crosses resemble those featured on a hillside memorial in South Africa that claims to mark about 3,000 killings of white farmers in a country that registers more than 20,000 murders a year.

    Ramaphosa noted that most murder victims in South Africa are Black. He said that if Trump listened to “the voices of South Africans,” he would better understand the situation. A visibly frustrated Trump countered that “we have thousands of stories,” and then confronted Ramaphosa with video of Malema calling for Black South Africans to take over land even if the president tells them they cannot.

    “That is not government policy,” Ramaphosa protested. “Our government policy is completely against what he is saying, even in the Parliament.”

    Ramaphosa’s agricultural minister, John Steenhuisen, who is white, added that he had joined the governing coalition to make sure “that lot” never gains power in South Africa.

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    Riccardi reported from Denver and Magome from Johannesburg. Associated Press writer Melissa Goldin.

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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