Trump’s Racist “Evidence” Exposed: No, There Is No White Genocide in South Africa

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President Trump meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office

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1. The Myth Exploded: MeidasTouch Investigation

According to a May 2025 exclusive from the MeidasTouch Network, Donald Trump handed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a racist printout during their Oval Office meeting—a screenshot from a fringe Facebook page run by South African flat-earther and white supremacist Paul Hattingh.

👉 Read the full exposé: MeidasTouch Exclusive

Hattingh’s page is a cesspool of AI-generated images portraying Black South Africans as apes and glorifying Trump as a white savior. This is the “source” Trump relied on to accuse South Africa of “white genocide.” It’s not just misinformation. It’s disinformation weaponized for political gain.

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2. A Quick Historical Primer

Historical land-grabs 1652-1806

• 1652–1806: Dutch VOC settlers (later called Afrikaners or Boers) establish the Cape Colony.

• 1806–1910: British imperial forces take control, later integrating Boer republics into the Union of South Africa after brutal wars.

• 1913–1994: From the Natives Land Act to full-scale Apartheid, the state entrenches racial dispossession.

Apartheid signs at a rail station in South Africa (Wikimedia Commons)

      

• 1994–Present: Democracy is restored under Nelson Mandela, and land reform begins—but very slowly.

Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Gauteng, on 13 May 2008 (South Africa The Good News / www.sagoodnews.co.za)

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3. Land Ownership and the Seizure Lie

White South Africans, who make up approximately 7% of the population, still own about 72% of the commercial farmland.

The 2025 Expropriation Act allows for the government seizure of only unused or abandoned land, and no commercial farms have been taken without compensation as of this writing (Reuters, Al Jazeera, 2025).

This reform is a legal, measured process—not mob confiscation, and certainly not racial revenge.

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4. Are White Farmers Being Killed in a Genocidal Campaign?

Let’s look at the actual numbers:

Year	Farm Murders	% of Total Homicides (±27,500/yr)
2023	50	< 0.2%
2024	32	≈ 0.1%

Most of these murders are robbery-motivated, not racially targeted. Both white farmers and Black farm workers have been victims. The violence is tragic, but calling it genocide is dishonest and irresponsible.

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5. The Hypocrisy: Who Gets to Be a Refugee?

Trump’s administration has fast-tracked dozens of white Afrikaners under a “persecution” narrative. At the same time, over 150,000 Afghan interpreters and allies remain in limbo, abandoned after risking their lives for U.S. forces.

This isn’t humanitarianism. It’s a white preference policy.

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6. Why the Lie Persists

The “white genocide” myth is a staple of far-right messaging around the world. It animates xenophobia, feeds algorithmic outrage, and gives political figures like Trump an easy villain: nonwhite South Africans seeking economic justice.

It’s not new. It’s just being recycled—this time from a bigot’s Facebook feed into the Oval Office.

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Conclusion: Truth Matters

South Africa is still recovering from the scars of apartheid. Yes, there is crime. Yes, land reform is overdue. But there is no campaign—state-sponsored or otherwise—to exterminate white South Africans.

Weaponizing a fake genocide narrative disrespects actual victims of genocide around the world and undermines serious global discourse.

Ramaphosa and Trump

 Michael - Alternate Thursdays

The big news in South Africa today is, of course, the meeting between Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, and Donald Trump. International diplomacy on live TV is an initiative of the new Trump administration, and afterwards words like “ambushed” were bandied around and comparisons were made to the disastrous meeting between President Zelenskyy and the US president. But Ramaphosa seems to have held his ground as well as his temper.

A number of issues have led to the low in relations between the two countries. South Africa's close ties with Russia and China through the BRICS initiative is one, although Trump seems to have better relations with Vladimir Putin than Ramaphosa does anyway.

The outspoken, and, frankly, inappropriate comments of the South African ambassador to a South African group about the Trump administration led to friction and his expulsion from the US. Ambassadors have a job. Comments like that should be reserved for their memoirs written after they’ve retired.

South Africa’s challenge to Israel at the international court was another unpopular move with the US and no doubt sparked the counter accusation of South Africa’s alleged genocide against white Afrikaner farmers that seems to have caught Trump’s fancy. Ramaphosa took with him a white support group consisting of two of Trump’s golf heroes – Retief Goosen and Ernie Els, billionaire investor Johann Rupert, and the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, John Steenhuisen. Steenhausen is now Minister of Agriculture in the Government of National Unity. Exactly the right person, one would think, to address Trump’s concerns.

In the end, what did Trump’s ambush come down to? A collection of song clips of Julius Malema singing racist songs. Ramaphosa pointed out that Malema is a firebrand opposition politician, not a “government official” as Trump described him.

Graveyard along the highway. Not.

Then there was the field of crosses – a grave yard of murdered white farmers extending for miles, we were told. Actually, it was a protest at the murders of Glen and Vida Rafferty on their farm. There were no actual graves. There was no intension of a correlation between the number of crosses and dead farmers of any racial group.

Finally, there was a gory murder scene. This was from the DRC, nowhere near South Africa at all.

This was the evidence of genocide in South Africa. Certainly the number of murders and other crimes is appalling. Steenhuisen emphasized that South Africa has a serious crime problem. And that most of the victims are black. But that there is no evidence of a campaign to murder white farmers or drive them from their land.

Ramaphosa asked only, in Nelson Mandela’s words, that when there is a problem we sit down together and work it through from the beginning. South Africa can only hope that once the curtain came down on the White House's theatre for television, that is what happened.