President Donald Trump said there is an ongoing “genocide.”
Ramaphosa, the main political parties in South Africa and a South African judge, however, have denied the existence of a white genocide in the country.
Elon Musk, a native of South Africa and Trump’s main advisor, was present for Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House. He has also previously expressed Trump’s accusations that White South Africans flee from the country due to “violence and racist laws.”
President Donald Trump meets the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, on May 21, 2025, in Washington.
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In February 2025, a South African court ruled that the white genocide statements were unfounded, calling them “non -real” and “clearly imagined.”
The ruling occurred after a rich benefactor in the country wanted to donate $ 2.1 million to the supremacist group Benrelegioen, who was denied by the court.
While the court has rejected the claims of a white genocide, it is true that there is a problem with the farmers killed in South Africa.
These murders are brutal, and the general murder rate in South Africa is high, with 45 murders per 100,000 people, according to the data collected in 2023, but there are no indications that these murders are driven by the race.
The statistics of South African crimes do not differentiate between the races of the victims, and there is no specific category for the murders for the farm.
During the Oval office meeting with Trump, Ramaphosa said: “There is criminality in our country. People who are killed, unfortunately, through criminal activities are not only white, most of them are black people.”
Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting in the White House Cabinet room in Washington, on April 30, 2025.
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South Africa’s presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya told ABC News that “there is no evidence” to support genocide statements and claimed that the foreign intelligence of the United States would reiterate that.
“There is no evidence of what is claimed here. The United States has a very sophisticated intelligence compilation mechanism. I can tell you now, if your intelligence community was willing to leave and talk, they will tell you that what is spreading here is completely false,” Magwenya said.
The White House issued a statement after the meeting entitled “President Trump is right about what is happening in South Africa”, doubling the unfounded statements of the genocide administration that occur in the nation.
The statement has a litany of press clippings that say they defend their position that a genocide is happening in the country, indicating articles by Fox News, Breitbart and the BBC. Many of the cuts in the statement refer to individual acts or threats of violence.
Amid the continuous statements of Trump and Musk genocide, dozens of Afrikaner refugees arrived in the United States last week after their requests are accelerated under an executive order issued by Trump in February entitled “addressing atrocious actions of the Republic of South Africa.”
The order argues that the South African government approved a law that allows it to “take the agricultural property of Afrikaners ethnic minorities without compensation” in a “shocking contempt for the rights of its citizens.”
He instructs that the United States will not provide assistance or assistance to the Nation, and that the United States “will promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees.”
Trump has been criticized for prioritizing Afrikaners while moving to restrict the immigration of other places, even from Afghanistan, Venezuela and Haiti.
