Murder rates are high in South Africa, but the overwhelming majority of victims are Black.
But in a carefully choreographed Oval Office onslaught, Trump pounced, moving quickly to a list of concerns about the treatment of whites, which he punctuated by playing a video and leafing through a stack of printed news articles that he said proved his allegations.
“People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety. Their land is being confiscated, and in many cases, they’re being killed.”
A new land reform law, aimed at redressing the injustices of apartheid, allows for expropriations without compensation when in the public interest, for example if land is lying fallow. No such expropriation has taken place, and any order can be challenged in court.
“If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you, these three gentleman would not be here,“ Ramaphosa said, referring to golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen and billionaire Johann Rupert, who were present in the room.
“We have thousands of stories talking about it, and we have documentaries, we have news stories,“ Trump said before directing that the video be played. “It has to be responded to.”
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Trump then displayed printed copies of articles that he said showed white South Africans who had been killed, saying “death, death” as he flipped through them, eventually handing them to his counterpart.
Ramaphosa responded: “These are concerns we are willing to talk to you about.”
“I will say: apartheid, terrible,“ Trump noted. “This is sort of the opposite of apartheid.”
Trump declined to say whether he would attend the G20 meeting in South Africa in November.
He has canceled aid, expelled South Africa's ambassador and offered refuge to white minority Afrikaners based on racial discrimination claims Pretoria says are baseless.
Later in the meeting, South African business tycoon Johann Rupert, who was part of Ramaphosa's delegation, stepped in to back up Ramaphosa, saying that crime was a problem across the board and many Black people were dying too.
He nodded to Elon Musk, Trump's South Africa-born billionaire ally who was also present in the Oval Office, by saying that his Starlink telecoms systems were needed in every South African police station to combat crime.
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