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Why Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claim in South Africa is false

2025/5/26
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William Lee Adams: 我主持了BBC世界服务台的《世界大事》节目，报道了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普关于南非白人农民被大规模处决的言论。这一说法被南非政府的数据驳斥。本期节目将探讨这一说法的来源，对人们如何看待南非的影响，以及美国为何向南非白人阿非利卡人社区提供难民身份。 Nomsa Maseko: 我是BBC记者，目前在南非比勒陀利亚工作。南非人口超过6500万，黑人占81%以上，白人阿非利卡人占7%多一点。阿非利卡人是17世纪后期在南非定居的荷兰人的后裔，他们控制了南非的农业经济和政治，并制定了种族隔离法律。种族隔离制度的遗产至今仍在南非许多地方存在。 特朗普总统在白宫会见南非总统拉马福萨时播放了一段视频，声称视频中乡间小路上排列的白色十字架是白人农民的墓地，以此证明种族灭绝正在发生。南非人对这一说法感到震惊，认为这是美国总统的又一个噱头。南非政府用数据驳斥了种族灭绝的说法，指出南非存在严重的暴力犯罪问题，但大多数受害者是黑人，并非白人。特朗普展示的白色十字架实际上是为了抗议暴力犯罪，并非白人农民的墓地。南非政府首次按种族发布犯罪统计数据，以反驳白人是唯一受害者的谎言。 关于数十名最近获得美国难民身份的南非白人，一些阿非利卡人表示他们不想离开南非，因为南非是一个成功和繁荣的民主国家。一小部分人想先了解已经成为美国难民的阿非利卡人的生活状况，然后再决定是否跟随他们。特朗普关于种族灭绝的虚假言论可能会影响G20峰会以及美国和南非之间的关系。如果美国不参加G20峰会，最终丢脸的是美国。

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President Trump's claim that white farmers in South Africa are being executed en masse is false. This episode investigates the origins of this claim, the South African government's response, and the impact on US-South Africa relations. The claim is based on misinformation and ignores the broader context of violent crime in the country.
  • Trump's claim of 'genocide' against white farmers in South Africa is false.
  • The majority of crime victims in South Africa are Black.
  • The South African government has provided statistics debunking the genocide claim.
  • White crosses shown in a video were part of a protest, not burial sites.

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US president Donald Trump has claimed that white farmers in South Africa are being executed en masse. But this is simply not true.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation went to Washington last week hoping for a boost and a reset after months of bitterness with the Donald Trump administration. Instead they got brutal, high-stakes diplomacy, peppered with insults, which played out to millions across the world in real time. This included Trump showing a video which supposedly proved ‘genocide’ was taking place against white farmers.

BBC journalist Nomsa Maseko breaks down where this false claim came from, how people in South Africa have responded to it, and what impact it could have on the future of relations between the two countries. We also hear why some white Afrikaners are taking up the offer of refugee status in the US.

Instagram: @bbcwhatintheworld Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: +44 330 12 33 22 6 Presenter: William Lee Adams Producers: Mora Morrison and Emilia Jansson Editor: Verity Wilde