Donald Trump’s office faces the oval confrontation with Cyril Ramavusa

Donald Trump faced President Cyril Ramavusa during a tense exchange in the White House on Wednesday, with a series of disputed allegations about the killing of white farmers in South Africa.

The meeting has changed – at first warm and lightly – a tone, as Trump asked his employees to play a video of mostly the opposition politician in South Africa, Julius Malima, chanting a song calling for violence against white farmers.

The video also included clips showing rows of crosses, which he claimed to be a burial site for the murdered white farmers, and Ramavusa presented copies of articles that he said was wide -ranging brutality against the white minority in South Africa.

Trump administration supporters have long been amplified of violence against the white minority, especially Elon Musk and former Fox News host Taker Karlson, who was running segments in the supposed collective genocide during the term of the first president. Some of these allegations are clearly wrong.

Trump’s shots in the Oval Office showed rows of white crosses that extend to the distance along the rural road. Trump claimed: “These are burial sites here. Burial sites. More than a thousand white farmers,” Trump claimed.

However, crosses do not distinguish graves. The video is a protest against the killing of the white agricultural spouses, Glin and Veda Ravieri, who were shot and shot in their workplace in 2020. The clip was shared on YouTube on September 6, after a day of protests.

“It is not a burial site, but it was a memorial,” Rob Hawatson, one of the event organizers, told BBC. He said that the crosses were held as a “temporary memorial” for the couple.

Mr. Hatson said that the cross has been lowered since then.

BBC Verify established geographical shots to an area in Kawazolo Natal Province, near Newcastle. Google Street View photos, taken in May 2023, show approximately three years after the shots appeared for the first time online – that crosses are no longer in place.

At the meeting, Trump said: “Many people are very interested in South Africa … We have many people who feel persecuted, and they come to the United States, so we take many sites if we feel that there is persecution or genocide.”

He has previously made allegations about “white genocide” several times before and it seems that it indicates this.

At a press conference earlier this month, he said: “It is a collective genocide,” referring to the killing of white farmers in South Africa.

The country has one of the highest killings in the world. There were 2,6232 murders last year, according to South African Police figures (SAPS).

Among them, 44 of the killing of people within the agricultural society and from these, eight farmers.

These numbers are not divided by sweat in any publication of general statistics that we are able to locate – but it is clear that they do not provide evidence of the “white genocide” claims that Trump has provided again and again.

In February, South Africa Judge Refuse the idea of ​​genocide “Imagine clearly” and “unrealistic”.

The Agricultural Union brings together TAU, which represents farmers, personalities that provide an insight into the ethnic identity of the victims. Tau depends on media reports, social media and reports of its members.

Their numbers appear last year that 23 eggs were killed in agricultural attacks, and nine black people. So far this year, Tao registered three eggs and four black people who were killed on South African farms.

During the tense meeting, Trump played footage of the political marches in which the “Kill the Boer” participants – a controversial song by critics that critics say calling on violence against white farmers.

South African courts classified the song as a hate speech, but the last rulings have eliminated that they could enrich legally in gatherings because the judges say that it constitutes a political point and does not require violence directly.

Trump said that those who lead singing are “officials” and “people who were in office.”

One of the men leading the gathering was Julius Malima, who previously led the wing of the ruling African National Congress Party. In 2012, he left the party and did not hold an official government position. It is now leading a party called EFFs, which won 9.5 % in the elections last year, and the opposition’s income against the new multi -party alliance.

In response to Trump’s accusations, Ramavusa confirmed that EFF is a “small minority party” and said that “our government’s policy is completely inconsistent with what he was saying.”

Another man in the video can be singing lyrical “shot the Boir” in a different gathering, former President Jacob Zuma, who left his position in 2018. The video is from 2012 when he was president. ANC promised to stop singing the song shortly.

Zuma later left the African National Congress Party and is now leading the Umkhonto and Yosuzoy party (MK), which won more than 14 % in elections last year.

During the meeting, Trump held a series of articles that he claimed showed evidence of the killing of white farmers in South Africa.

There was a clear clear picture as Trump spoke and said: “Look, here are the burial sites everywhere. These are all egg farmers buried.”

But the image is not from South Africa – it is in fact a report on the killing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The French News Agency (AFP) initially referred to the photo, and the BBC verified a search operation and confirmed that it was from a Reuters news agency that was filmed in Dr. Kongo in Guma in February.