Donald Trump has been widely criticised for using images of a tragedy in another African country as “proof” of a “white genocide” in South Africa.
The US President made the revelation during a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House on Wednesday, 21 May.
In it, Trump continued to push his narrative of “farm killings” and “land grabs” against white South Africans.
This comes a week after 49 Afrikaners arrived in the US under “refugee” status on the basis of “racial discrimination”.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S ‘WHITE GENOCIDE PROOF’ IS FAKE NEWS
Speaking to President Ramaphosa, Trump accused South Africa of “killing white farmers and taking away their land”.
The US president then revealed a stack of printed article clippings which claimed to support his case of a “white genocide”.
The print-outs highlighted violent crime attacks in the country. However, one clipping used an image that was not even from South Africa.
Trump said of the image and the text: “This is death, death, horrible death….These are all white farmers being buried”.
The article was from a right-wing publication called American Thinker, which accused the South African government of “destroying whites”.
According to several fact-checkers, the image showed a group of Red Cross workers inthe DRC who tended to women who had been raped and burned alive by inmates who had escaped a prison in Goma.
WHAT ABOUT THE CROSSES?
The article clipping was not the only imagery President Trump used to support his argument of a “white genocide”.
During the meeting, presidential aides roled out a television set, which played a video of Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) Julius Malema singing the struggle song “Kill The Boer.”
In the clip, there were images of white crosses lining a national road, which Trump implied was the “burial sites of white farmers.”
According to reports, the white crosses were actually part of a 2020 memorial in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. This followed the farm murder of a local couple. The white crosses did not represent a burial site, but signified those who had been killed over the years.
The imagery is not to be confused with the Witkruis Monument in Limpopo.
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