Trump Accuses South Africa of Genocide Against Whites In Oval Office Meeting
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
WASHINGTON (Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald J. Trump told South African president Cyril Ramaphosa that “thousands” of white people want to come to the United States because they fear for their lives in South Africa.
The comments came during the most tense White House Oval Office encounter since Trump’s standoff with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February.
Trump maintains 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, despite mounting evidence of targeted torture and killings of especially white farmers who are often located in remote areas.
Yet authorities say murder rates are high in the country and that most victims belong to South Africa’s Black majority.
What began as a convivial meeting at the White House, including lighthearted quips about golf, took a sudden turn when Ramaphosa told Trump there was “no genocide” against Afrikaners.
Trump said, “We have thousands of stories talking about it,” then ordered his staff: “Turn the lights down and just put this on.”
FORCING SMILE
Sitting next to Trump before the fireplace, Ramaphosa forced a smile and turned to look at a big TV screen as Trump’s South Africa-born billionaire ally Elon Musk, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and diplomats and journalists from both countries looked on.
The video included footage of former South African president Jacob Zuma and firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called “Kill the Boer,” which means “farmer” or “Afrikaner,” as supporters danced.
“This is very bad,” Trump said, while a long row of crosses from an earlier farmers’ protest could be seen.
Each cross represented a murdered farmer.
They had been demonstratively planted along a road. Trump, however, spoke of ‘a cemetery’. Ramaphosa said he had “never seen” the images.
“I don’t want you to look bad, but thousands of people want to come to our country because they fear for their lives and are afraid that their land will be taken away,” Trump said.
Ramaphosa countered that the “Kill the farmer” calls were not government policy but came from a small opposition party, adding that this is part of a democracy.
“Why don’t you arrest that man? He calls for the murder of white farmers”, Trump said in response. referring to a politician who went on a rampage in the video.
FARMERS’ LAND
However, South Africa’s agriculture minister, himself white, said the government was “doing everything it can” to prevent radical Black politicians from coming to power as they seek to take land from white farmers and call for violence.
Another member of the South African delegation emphasized that the violence is not driven by racism and affects all population groups.
According to official estimates, an average of around fifty farmers are murdered in South Africa annually.
Many more are robbed, raped and abused, according to investigators and survivors, some of whom met Trump.
Ramaphosa, who had kindly offered a book about golf courses at the start of the visit in the Oval Office, tried to make it clear that he took murders seriously.
Yet, commentators said, it was not the message that seemed to stick after his stormy visit.
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