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Theologian says apartheid legacy fuels farmer attacks in South Africa, claims 'white genocide' allegations are 'a myth'

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South African billionaires allege 'white genocide' after heated Trump meeting with Ramaphosa

President Donald Trump’s remarks about "dead white people" during a tense meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa two weeks ago stirred international debate after he raised concerns about allegations of genocide and violence against white farmers in the majority black country.

In what quickly became a viral exchange between Trump, Ramaphosa and his delegation, Trump asked aides to dim the lights in the room as a video began to play showing footage of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Party singing the apartheid-era “Shoot the Boer” song — with lyrics that include “kill the Boer, kill the white farmer” — in front of a massive crowd filling a stadium.

Despite the president’s Oval Office lesson on South African history, most Americans are unfamiliar with the plight of the Afrikaners, the minority ethnic group who are mostly descendants of Dutch arrivalswho began arriving at the Cape of Good Hope Colony in 1652.

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The EFF are a small minority party, hardly representative of most South Africans. The Dallas Theological Seminary professor is correct, there is no genocide of whites in South Africa. Farmer attacks have more to do with the unfortunate legacy of Apartheid and colonialism, which created widespread immiseration among the general population, leaving South Africa a broken country with alot of crime and poverty among all sectors of society.
 
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