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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mogomotsi Magome

Trump alleges 'genocide' in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff

South Africa Afrikaner Farmers - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Days before South Africa's president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House this week, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country's agricultural heartland, some touching the names of the dead — both Black and white.

Here in Bothaville, where thousands of farmers gathered for a lively agricultural fair with everything from grains to guns on display, even some conservative white Afrikaner groups debunked the Trump administration's “genocide” and land seizure claims that led it to cut all financial aid to South Africa.

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