I asked so many questions only because your post was so vague and devoid of any meaningful information.
Re: the stats, best I can glean in a few minutes search, there have been increased attacks on farmers in recent years. The govt states that it doesnt keep records of farmers’ race ( weird right?) so it doesn’t know if deaths of white farmers have increased specifically or just farmers’ deaths in general. That’s their story and they’re sticking to it. Although some radical groups in Sourh Africa call for genocidal retribution against Afrikaner land owners, I’ve found no evidence of it being govt sanctioned and there’s definitely not enough evidence to support accusations of genocide. If Fox News or Newsmax has any, they would have posted it.
BBC excerpt- The country has one of the highest murder rates in the world. There were 26,232 murders last year, according to South African Police Service (SAPS) figures.
Of these, 44 were killings of people within the farming community and of those, eight were of farmers.
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CNN excerpt -
There is
a lot of violent crime in South Africa. There is not a genocide against White farmers there.
Claims of genocide can sometimes be difficult to adjudicate. This claim is easy. The facts show that the genocide President Donald Trump suggests might be happening is not happening – and that crime against White farmers in South Africa represents a tiny fraction of the country’s overall crime.
The
most recent South African official data shows that the country had 19,696 murders from April 2024 through December 2024 – and that the victim in
just 36 of these murders, about 0.2%, was linked to farms or smaller agricultural holdings.
Further, only seven of the 36 victims were farmers. (South Africa has Black farmers, too; the official data is not broken down by race.) The other 29 victims included farm employees, who tend to be Black.
Data from groups representing South African farmers also
shows that farm killings
number in the dozens per year, a minuscule percentage of the country’s total.
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PBS excerpt -
White farmers have been murdered in South Africa. But those murders account for less than 1% of more than 27,000 annual murders nationwide. Experts said the deaths
do not amount to genocide, and Trump misleads about land confiscation.
“The idea of a ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa is completely false,” said
Gareth Newham, who heads a justice and violence prevention program at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.
“As an independent Institute tracking violence and violent crime in South Africa, if there was any evidence of either a genocide or targeted violence taking place against any group based on their ethnicity this, we would be amongst the first to raise (the) alarm and provide the evidence to the world.”
There are about 2.7 million white Afrikaners, who are descendants of Dutch and French settlers, in South Africa. About 80% of the people living in South Africa are Black. From 1948 until the early 1990s, South Africa lived under apartheid rule, racial segregation that gave only white people power and forced Black South Africans to live separately from white people.
