Name: Investigating Trump's claims that White South African farmers are victims of genocide
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In November, President Trump announced he would permanently pause migration from all Third World countries to the US After a member of the National Guard was killed and another badly wounded in Washington, allegedly by an Afghan refugee.

But there is one group of refugees the Trump administration is welcoming.

It's expediting the resettlement of white South Africans, mostly Afrikaners, who are descendants of Dutch settlers.

President Trump says that white farmers are victims of a genocide.

The South African government disputes that.

We went to South Africa to see for ourselves.

In the rolling hills of KwaZulu Natal Province in the southeast of South Africa, we met Darrell Brown, a seventh generation rancher and farmer.

Did you grow up knowing you would be a farmer?

But that calling has often come with risks.

Ten years ago, his 82 year old father was brutally attacked on the farm by robbers looking for guns and Money.

Then in 2020, Brown's friends Glenn and Vita Rafferty were murdered in a robbery on their farm nearby.

We're aware of what's happening around us.

We came to Darrell Brown's farm because of what President Trump said last May about the murders of South African farmers.

It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but

it's a terrible thing that's taking place.

Nine days later, South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House.

Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa and has also made claims of genocide, was there too.

What happened next seemed to take Ramaphosa by surprise.

President Trump showed several videos, proof, the White House said, of the violence targeting white farmers.

We found the spot where those white crosses were once planted.

It's a lonely pothole road not far from Darrell Brown's ranch.

I mean, those crosses were there for less than 48 hours in.

It was purely an avenue of crosses that we planted there in honor of commercial farmers in South Africa that had lost their lives.

Brown knows about the crosses because he put them there on the day of his friends Glenn and Vita Rafferty's funeral.

In 2024, he brought them out again for the funeral of his best friend, Tolly Nell, who was also murdered on his farm.

Her husband was killed in front of her trying to fight off burglars.

Her son Tiennes was tied up while they stole cash and guns.

He carries a weapon with him almost all the time.

The only time I don't have it on me is when is when I'm in the shower, really, Because I don't ever want another situation to arise where I feel that I'm a victim.

The Nels have hired private security guards and fortified their property with electric fences and cameras.

Many in South Africa feel they can't rely on the country's ineffective and overwhelmed police to keep them safe.

When you heard President Trump talk about a genocide, what did you think?

Well, I just thought he was using the wrong word.

In your opinion, it's not a genocide here.

Not what I've heard of what a genocide is.

I see our attack as an opportunistic attack.

Whites make up only about 7% of the population of South Africa, but

still own 72% of all privately held agricultural land and many of the country's large commercial farms.

But according to Wandili Salobo, a leading agricultural economist, the overwhelming number of farmers and those working on farms are black.

The white farmers may have a bigger part of the proportion of income, but

the vast majority of people operating the farms in South Africa are black.

They affect black farmers as well as white farmers.

They affect black farmers as well as white farmers and also farm workers who are largely black.

Niklal azuma farmed this nine acre plot for 20 years.

But in 2024, a group of men shot at him and broke into his house.

Did you think at the time they were going to kill you?

After the attack, he decided to sell the farm.

There are a lot of black farmers that are attacked and the voices are not out.

It's just another number, another statistics.

South Africa is one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

The murder rate is seven times that of the United States and.

And the majority of victims and perpetrators are black.

According to Police, more than 25,000 people were murdered here in 2024.

It's estimated 37 of them were killed on farms 37 out of 25,000.

Johan Kotza is an Afrikaner who's head of South Africa's largest agricultural organization.

It's what's happening in street in Johannesburg and other major cities.

The fact that it happened on a farm doesn't make me special as a farmer.

South African police only began publishing the race of those murdered on farms under pressure last year.

In the first quarter of 2025, they reported six farm homicides.

Poverty is the biggest driver of crime in South Africa.