Trump confronts South African president over alleged 'white genocide'
發佈日期: 2025-05-23 19:45
TVB News
During their recent meeting at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump confronted the leader of South Africa with conspiracy theories on alleged "White genocide" in South Africa.
But the authenticity of the "facts" presented by Trump has been challenged.
During an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump unexpectedly presented a video and a stack of printed "news articles" as proof of violence against the white minority in South Africa.
Trump believed the footage supported his claims that the country's Black-led government was turning a blind eye to so-called "White genocide."
"Death of people. Death. Death. Death. Horrible death...Look, here is a burial site all over the place. They are all, these are all white farmers that are being buried."
But Reuters' fact check team subsequently verified that the screenshot was pulled from a video filmed by its journalist in Congo, not South Africa, on February 3rd. The agency said the footage actually showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags following an M23 rebel assault on the Congolese city of Goma.
Another video that the White House played showed a line of white crosses alongside a highway, which Trump claimed to be gravesites of over a thousand of white farmers who were killed.
Yet BBC reported the video was from a protest against the murder of two white farmers in 2020. Organisers of the event said the crosses do not mark graves, but were erected as a temporary memorial and have since been taken down.
Ramaphosa diplomatically rejected Trump's assertions and said his government and his party are completely opposed to the alleged behaviour. He said if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, these three white officials would not be with him, including his minister of agriculture.
The South African president did acknowledge violent crime has become a serious issue in their country, while pointing out the majority of victims were Black. He also rejected the notion that white South Africans are fleeing because of racist policies.
The clash came after the U.S. government cut all assistance to South Africa, and granted asylum to some 60 Afrikaners, deeming them victims of racial discrimination.
In recent months, Trump has accused the Ramaphosa administration of seizing land from white farmers and pursuing an anti-American foreign policy.
