Checking the facts of the Oval Office Donald Trump with Cyril Ramaphosa

Donald Trump collided with President Kirill Ramaphos during a busy exchange at the White House on Wednesday, with a series of challenges about the murder of white farmers in South Africa.

The meeting – first warm and easy – quickly changed the tone when Trump asked his staff to play videos showing opposition politicians of South African, calling for violence against white farmers.

Trump also played footage on which the ranks of the crosses were applied, which, he said, were a burial place for killed white farmers, and presented Ramaphos copies of articles, which, he said, recorded a wide cruelty against the white minority of South Africa.

Proponents of the Trump administration have long intensified their claims against the white minority, in particular, Elon Musk and the former leading Fox News Takar Carlson, who led the segments on the alleged genocide during the first president. Some of these claims are demonstratively false.

The shots played by Trump in the oval office showed the ranks of white crosses that stretched away along the rural road. Trump claimed: “These are burial sites. Burial sites. More than a thousand white farmers.”

However, crosses do not mark graves. The video goes out of protest against the murder of Glen Agriculture and the species of raffrti, which were ambushed and shot in their premises in 2020. The clip shared on YouTube on September 6, the day after the protests.

“This is not a burial place, but it was a memorial,” ” Rob Hotson, one of the organizers of the event, told the BBC. He said the crosses were erected as a “temporary memorial” for the couple.

Mr. Hoatson said the crosses had been lifted since then.

The BBC Verify started personnel in the area in the province of Kwazul-Natal, near the city of Newcastle. Google Street View, shot in May 2023 – almost three years after the footage first appeared on the Internet, show that the crosses were no longer standing.

At the meeting, Trump said: “A lot of people are very concerned about South Africa … We have a lot of people who are persecuted and they come to the US, so we take many places when we feel pursuit or genocide.”

Earlier, he had previously said claims about the “white genocide” and seemed to meant it.

At the beginning of this month, he said, “This is a genocide that happens,” citing the murder of white farmers in South Africa.

The country has one of the highest levels of murder in the world. Last year there were 26 232 murders, South African police (SAPS) reports.

Of these, 44 were killing people in agriculture, and eight were from farmers.

These figures do not break the races in any public out production of the statistics that we have been able to find – but they obviously do not give evidence of the “white genocide” claim made by Trump repeatedly.

In February South African Judge rejected the idea of ​​genocide As “clearly” and “not real”.

The Transvaal Agricultural Union (Tau) representing farmers is the figures that give an understanding of the racial identity of the victims. The Tau relies on the media reports, the social media reports and its members’ reports.

Their figures showed 23 white people and nine black people last year. So far, this year, the tau recorded three white people and four black people killed on South African farms.

During a tense meeting, Trump played footage from political actions in which the participants sang “kill the storm” – a contradictory anti -aprartida song that critics say it requires violence against white farmers.

The South African courts classified the song as a hatred language, but recent opinions have decided that it could be legally singing at the rallies, according to the judges, it does a political moment and does not cause violence directly.

Trump said those who were singing were “officials” and “people who were in office.”

One of the men running the rally was Julius Malem, who had previously ruled the Anc youth wing. In 2012, he left the party and never held an official position of government. He is now headed by a party called “Economic Freedom Fighters” (EFF), which scored 9.5% in the elections last year, entering opposition against a new multi -party coalition.

Responding to Trump’s accusations, Ramaphos emphasized that Eff is a “small minority batch” and said that “our state policy is completely against what he says.”

Another man in a video you can hear by singing the lyrics “shoot in the storm” on another action – former President Jacob Zuma, who left the office in 2018. Video – since 2012 when he was president. Ank promised to stop singing the song shortly afterwards.

In the future, Zuma left the Anc, and now heads the opposition party Umkhont Iiz (MK), which won more than 14%in the elections last year.

During the meeting, Trump held a number of articles that, he said, showed evidence of the murder of white farmers in South Africa.

There was an image clearly visible when Trump said and said, “Listen, here are the burial places everywhere. These are all white farmers who are buried.”

But the image is not from South Africa – this is actually a report on the dead women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The French News Agency (AFP) originally noted the image, and the BBC Verify conducted and confirmed it as from Reuters Clip, removed in the city of D -Congo Goma in February.