Andrew L. Urban
In his May 23, 2025 article headlined “The Oval Office is the new Colosseum for world leaders” The Australian’s Cameron Stewart conflates general crime with the racially motivated murders of white farmers.
He writes: “The problem is that in Trump’s two Oval Office attacks so far – Zelensky and Ramaphosa – his very public claims have been rubbery at best.
“With Ramaphosa, Trump was [also] off the mark. Trump confronted Ramaphosa with claims of a genocide against white Afrikaner farmers.
“The murder of white farmers has occurred in South Africa and it is a legitimate issue. But South Africa is in the grip of spiralling crime across the country, with some 7000 people murdered every three months – the vast majority of whom are black. There is no evidence to suggest that white farmers suffer from the nation’s crime wave more than any other South Africans do.”
But of course the killing of white farmers has a racial trigger, which differentiates those from the rest in an important way. And those many black victims mentioned are not murdered by white farmers.