The man who was held by the white crosses shown by the American president, not the graves

The man who organized an offer for white works in South Africa, which Donald Trump showed on Wednesday, said that the American president was wrong when he described it as a “burial site”.

Rob Hawatson said that the crosses were placed on the side of the road in the Cozolo Natal province as a memorial for the couple who were killed on their farm in 2020.

During a meeting sometimes at the White House, Trump showed his counterpart in South Africa, Cyril Ramavusa, a video of crosses to strengthen his argument that white farmers were targeted.

While he confessed to violence in his country, Ramavusa rejected the idea that the African minority was systematically killed.

“These are burial sites … more than 1,000 white farmers and … do not drive these cars, they stopped there to pay respect for their family members who were killed,” Trump said while the video was playing in the Oval Office.

Mr. Hoatson, a 46 -year -old farmer, said that although he had no problem in the video that was used without his knowledge, Trump was known to be “exaggerated” and was happy to record the record directly about the amazing image.

“It is not a burial site, but it was a memorial. It was not a constant memorial that was constructed. It was a temporary memorial,” he said.

The crosses were created to celebrate the death of Glin, Veda Ravieri, 63 and 60, who were the neighbors of Mr. Hatson and killed on their farm in August 2020.

Two men were convicted of killing them in 2022.

The memorial consists of more than 2,500 white intersections that spread on both sides of the road near the couple’s farm. Since then it has been lowered.

“But the big issue here is not in fact whether the burial site or whether it is a memorial.”

When asked how I think President Trump acted at the meeting, he said: “I think Trump put the facts … at the foot of Ramavusa and asked him to respond to it.

“I thought the response was somewhat deplorable. There was no response.

“So when President Ramavusa said (last night) he had not heard before, he was unprecedented, as you know, he was exactly directed to his face. I don’t buy it. I don’t believe it.”

In the oval office, Ramavusa said that there is “criminality in our country”, adding that “people who are killed through criminal activity are not only eggs, but most of them are black.”

South Africa does not issue racing crime numbers, but the latest figures show that nearly 10,000 people were killed in the country between October and December 2024. Among them, dozens of agricultural attacks were killed, and among the 12, he was one of the farmers, while five residents of the farm and four employees were likely to be black.

Some African activists celebrated Trump’s comments on Ramavusa, saying that she had put a “farm killing crisis on the international agenda”.

However, the writer of the political column in Africanteer Peter de Tweet said that what happened was the result of “months and years of exaggeration, excessive excess and wrong information fueled by the American right -wing ecosystem by a group of activists in South Africa.”