Genocide or not, South Africa has a disturbing problem
Matthew Miller – This week, President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House, addressing a grim reality that has been largely swept under the rug by the American media: the brutal attacks on white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa.
Trump’s pointed remarks— “White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws”—echoed the harrowing truths exposed in Katie Hopkins’ 2018 documentary, Plaasmoorde: The Killing Fields.
While the term “genocide” is debated, the systemic racial violence afflicting South Africa’s white farmers is undeniable, and the American media’s reluctance to cover this crisis with the urgency it demands is a shameful abdication of responsibility. These farmers, facing targeted attacks for their race, have every right to seek asylum in the United States, and their plight deserves our attention.
Hopkins’ documentary lays bare the horrific reality of “plaasmoorde,” or farm murders, in South Africa. Through firsthand accounts, it exposes a pattern of violence that is both gruesome and racially charged.
One woman recounts a nightmarish assault where her jaw was blown off by a shotgun blast during a farm attack, leaving her permanently disfigured and traumatized. Another story details a couple who were threatened with a blowtorch before being robbed in their own home, kidnapped and brutally attacked.
Elderly women, defenseless in their rural homes, are subjected to rape and torture, with attackers often citing revenge as their motive. These are not isolated incidents but part of a broader wave of violence that has claimed thousands of lives over decades.
Hopkins interviews not only victims but also police officers, who chillingly confirm allegations of corruption and complicity within law enforcement, allowing these crimes to persist with little consequence.
“If you know you are being hunted, why stay?” Hopkins poses to the audience.
The question of whether this constitutes “genocide” is not the most important question we need to be asking at this time. The term implies intent to destroy a group, and while the scale and brutality of these attacks—often targeting white farmers explicitly—are deeply alarming, the definitional threshold for genocide in this case is debated.
The United Nations says a genocide is “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Decide for yourself after reading further and watching Hopkins’ documentary.
What is indisputable, however, is the systemic nature of this discrimination. White farmers, who own a significant portion of South Africa’s agricultural land, are being bullied off their properties through intimidation, theft, and even policy in the name of equity. The South African government’s policies, including land reform initiatives that facilitate dispossession, have exacerbated the situation, allowing for land to be confiscated by the government without fair compensation “in circumstances where it is just and equitable and in the public interest” to do so. This is DEI on steroids.
SF Source Politibrawl May 2025