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The latest crime statistics in South Africa are said to be a genocide against white people, said police minister of the country.
The widely discredited claim was strengthened by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, at an exceptional meeting with his South African counterpart Kiril Ramafosa.
Trump told Ramafosa that white farmers in South Africa were killed and “persecuted”.
On Friday, South African police minister Senzo Machunu said that between January and March, five of the six killed on the farms were black and one is white.
The white victim lived on a farm while the blacks killed make up two farm owners, two employees and one manager.
Machun said that in the previous quarter, from October to December 2024, 12 murders were recorded on Fermi. One of the 12th owner of a farm was white.
For the first time, statistics on crime in South Africa were broken by race, but Machun said he had done so as a result of the latest claims to genocide.
“The history of agricultural killings in the country has always been distorted and reported in an unbalanced way,” he said.
In February, a South African judge rejected the idea of genocide as “clearly imaginary” and “not real” when it was managed in a legacy case involving a donation of a wealthy benefactor of a white supreme group.
The allegations of genocide in South Africa have been spread for years, attracting the attention of the right groups in the United States.
Ramafosa visited the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to reset the relationships of the countries after Trump has provided refuge to nearly 60 Africa – descendants of the main Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th century, saying they were “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
During the meeting that was broadcast live, Trump planted Ramafosa with videos and images designed to support his claim to white genocide.
The BBC found that this “proof” contained many lies.
“We have respect for the United States as a country, we have respect for the people in this country and for President Trump, but we have no respect for the history of the genocide. It is completely unfounded and unfounded,” Machunun said on Friday.
A spokesman for the UN Human Rights Service also condemned Trump’s comments.
“These are very serious problems. One does not have to use this word (genocide) casually without knowing what this means. Looking at the history of South Africa, it is completely inappropriate,” says Rabbi Shamasani of the AFP news agency.
South Africa has one of the highest killings in the world, and Machunu has admitted that crime is a huge problem.
However, he added that all sections of society were affected.
The minister also rejected the claims, repeated by Trump that the government is alienating lands held by white farmers.
Earlier this year, Ramafosa signed a controversial law that allowed the government to seize private land without compensation in some circumstances. The South African government says that land has not yet been seized under the law.
The law follows the years of calls for land reform in South Africa, where the white minority has a vast majority of private land and wealth in the country, for more than 30 years, since the Apartheid’s racist system ended.
Relations between South Africa and the US have descended since Trump took office in January. In addition to offering an African refuge, the US leader cut off South Africa help and kicked his ambassador.