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U.S. President Donald Trump took South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to task today over the ongoing brutality, racism, discrimination, murder, and genocide targeting the European-descent Afrikaner community. The media and leftwing governments are losing it.
In the face of feigned ignorance by Ramaphosa and much of the global media, Trump used a TV screen to show ghastly scenes of blood-thirsty South African political leaders calling for the slaughter of the embattled minority group.
The leaders in question included Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) boss Julius Malema, a member of Parliament and former youth leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). “Shoot the Boer [white farmer], pow!” he screeched repeatedly in the video.
The far-left ANC, a revolutionary group long controlled by members of the murderous South African Communist Party, was closely allied with the Soviet Union during the first phase of South Africa’s “revolution” — a revolution also backed by powerful Deep State in the West.
During the heated confrontation in the Oval Office, Trump showed footage of then-President Jacob Zuma of the ANC singing pro-genocide songs, too. “Bring me my machine gun, we’re going to shoot the Boer,” Zuma sang, promising that his cabinet would also massacre Afrikaner farmers as troops danced frantically in front of him.
The U.S. president expressed shock at the videos. “When you look at the videos, I mean, how does it get worse? And these are people that are [government] officials, and they’re saying ‘kill the white farmer and take their land,’” Trump explained to the bewildered Ramaphosa.
Trump also highlighted various news reports from around the world documenting some of the carnage, including recent reports. “These are articles over the last few days – a death of people, death, death, horrible death, death, death,” the U.S. leader said, showing the headlines and the stack of papers to the camera.
“I’ll give these to you,” Trump told his South African counterpart. “So when you say, ‘What would you like to do?’ I don’t know what to do for this – white South African couples say that they were attacked violently. Look, here’s burial sites all over the place.”
Trump also showed footage of white crosses lining a roadway, each one in honor of a murdered farmer or family member. There is a monument to “Plassmoorde,” the Afrikaans term for farm murder, that this magazine featured on the cover in 2012. The South African strongman claimed not to know where or what that was.
The remarks by Trump today followed similar concerns expressed earlier this month when an outraged “journalist” asked Trump about his decision to expedite the arrival of Afrikaner refugees into the United States. The U.S. president issued a blistering rebuke of the media and South African authorities then, too.
“We’re having a G20 meeting, but I don’t know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of,” the president explained. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people [journalists and reporters] don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place.”
“Farmers are being killed,” added Trump. “They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”
Indeed, South Africa’s Parliament recently legalized the theft of land, calling it “expropriation without compensation.” And yet, the “fake news,” as Trump calls the media, continues to cover it all up.
“The newspapers and the media—television media—doesn’t even talk about it,” added the U.S. president. “If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they would talk about.”
Addressing insinuations by the leftwing media of racism, Trump hit back. “And I don’t care who they are — I don’t care about the race, their color — I don’t care about their height, their weight,” he said. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible. I have people that live in South Africa, they say it’s a terrible situation taking place.”
Ramaphosa responded in the White House with the now-tired claim that violence and crime affect all South Africans. Of course, that is absolutely true — under ANC-Communist rule, South Africa has become one of the most violent, unequal, and murderous societies on Earth.
But the fact that Afrikaners and especially Boer farmers are being specifically targeted has been indisputable for well over a decade, at least. As this writer warned in a 2012 cover story for The New American magazine, the world’s top genocide expert, Dr. Gregory Stanton, head of the non-profit group Genocide Watch, went on a fact-finding mission and brought the receipts.
Among other conclusions, Dr. Stanton — known in the 1990s as an anti-apartheid activist — found that Afrikaners were on the verge of being exterminated. “There is thus strong circumstantial evidence of government support for the campaign of forced displacement and atrocities against White farmers and their families,” Genocide Watch said in its report at the time. “There is direct evidence of SA [South African] government incitement to genocide.”
According to experts and estimates compiled by citizens who track the killing spree, at least 3,000 white farmers in South Africa, known as Boers (from the Dutch word for “farmer”), were brutally massacred over the decade preceding that mission by Stanton. Some estimates put the figures even higher, but it is hard to know as authorities hide the truth.
It is worse than “regular” murder, though. Many of the victims, including the elderly, women, children, and even infants, are raped or savagely tortured or both before being executed or left for dead. Sometimes boiling water is poured down their throats or they are filled with holes using electric drills. Other attacks involve burning victims with hot irons or slicing them up with machetes. In more than a few cases, the targets have been tied to their own cars and dragged along dirt roads for miles. Oftentimes, Bible pages or Bibles are left on the desecrated bodies.
This writer documented many of these atrocities and trends in a more recent episode of Behind The Deep State for The New American. That video, first published more than five years ago, offers some of the real history in addition to smoking-gun evidence that Afrikaners are being targeted.
At the White House, Ramaphosa tried to distance himself from the murderous rhetoric of his compatriots and political allies. “That is not government policy,” he said. “We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, and in many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy.”
He also claimed his government stands against the attacks being stirred up by officials. “Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying, even in the parliament, and a small minority party, which is allowed to exist in terms of our Constitution,” Ramaphosa added.
The controversial South African leader, whose regime has become a close ally of communist and Islamist tyrants around the world, was in the United States to try to salvage the longtime relationship with the U.S. government. He even brought a couple of notoriously leftwing token Afrikaners for the cameras.
But Trump is not letting up. Citing concerns about the genocide facing European-descent farmers, among other issues, Trump has cut off foreign aid to the South African regime. He has also suggested that he will not attend the upcoming G20 summit set to take place there.
Of course, Trump sparked an outcry by South Africa’s political class after drawing attention to the horrors facing the Afrikaner community. Afrikaner activists who raised the alarm are being targeted, too.
The U.S. government has already started welcoming some refugees from there, drawing the ire of far-left media outlets and extremists. Dozens have already arrived, and more are set to come soon.
Elon Musk, a South African immigrant to the United States, was among those in the Oval Office amid the historic scene today. Musk is said to be one of the individuals close to the president encouraging him to speak out on the issue.
As far back as the 1980s, The New American Senior Editor William F. Jasper was warning about what was coming: exactly what is happening today. Perhaps most horrifically, it was obvious even then, as Jasper pointed out repeatedly, that powerful subversives in the United States were critical to the agenda.
After Trump showed the world from the White House what is happening in today’s South Africa, it will be very difficult for the far-left global media and the regime to continue pretending nothing is going on. But that does not mean they will not try, as the day’s headlines show.
Perhaps more importantly, though, Americans must understand that the Communist revolution in South Africa that is now devouring the largely Christian Afrikaner minority is a template — the model that inspired Obama to get involved in politics, by his own admission.
In fact, what is happening in South Africa is a sneak preview of what awaits Americans and other liberty-minded Western peoples if they do not wake up and stop it. Liberty and Christian civilization depend on understanding South Africa’s revolution — and stopping the process in the West before it becomes irreversible.
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