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In his Oval office meeting Wednesday with the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, President Trump made accusations of persecution of white farmers in South Africa, which he used to justify Granting refugee status to a group of Afrikaners earlier this month.

Ramaphosa has denied that there is a genocide, and some Afrikaners say You are lying to Trump to on a “white genocide” in the country.

In the last three months of 2024, 12 people were killed in farms in South Africa, according to South African police. One was a white farmer, while the others were black workers or security workers, police said. Some estimates say that in recent years there have been about 50 murders in farms a year, but do not specify the breed. The country had almost 27,000 murders in total last year, according to police data.

Trump played videos and retained articles during the White House meeting this week to support his harmless claims. But much of what he showed was being misrepresented. Here are three examples:

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Trump raised a printed article by “American Thinker”, an online conservative magazine, which included a screenshot, accredited to Reuters, which the president said he showed “all the white farmers who are being buried.”

But the video of which the capture capture was taken from humanitarian workers who raised body bags in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said Reuters. The footage was taken in February after mortal battles with a Congolese rebel group backed by Rwanda in the rubber city.

The article “American Thinker” was about Congo and South Africa, but the image does not show South Africa. Andrea Widburg, managing editor of “American Thinker” and author of The Post, told Reuters that Trump had “mistakenly identified the image.”

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Trump said the images of the white crosses seen in the video are reproduced during their meeting with Ramaphosa showed burial sites of white farmers. However, the crosses were symbolic, part of a protest in 2020 after the murder of a white agriculture couple, according to the coverage of local media. A participant said they represented all farm murders, not just white farmers, over the years.

The demonstration, held near Normandien, South Africa, was asking the Government to take more measures against the murders by farm.

Ramaphosa recognized a crime problem in his country.

“There is crime in our country,” he told Mr. Trump. “People who are unfortunately killed through criminal activities are not only white. Most of them are black people.”

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The video presented by Trump included Julius Malema clips, the leader of a South African political party of the extreme left, the combatants of economic freedom. He is heard to sing an Anti-Apartheid song that includes the lyrics, “Kill the Boer”, which refers to white farmers, in multiple clips in recent years.

Malema was expelled from the Ramaphosa Governing Party, the African National Congress, 13 years ago, and Ramaphosa said that the EFF is a “small minority party” that does not represent the government. The ANC also distanced itself from the song more than a decade ago.

In a statement to Reuters after the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa, the EFF said the song “expresses the desire to destroy the white minority control system on South Africa’s resources.”

Three South African courts have ruled against attempts to designate it as a hate speech, saying that it is a song of historical liberation, not a literal incitement to violence, Reuters reported.

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Erielle Delzer, Emma Li and Debora Patta contributed to this report.