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During a contentious meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered a barrage of videos and images as so-called proof of “white genocide” in South Africa.
But at least one image Trump was referencing on Wednesday was not even from South Africa.
As Agence France-Presse first reported, an image Trump pointed to while citing violence against white farmers in South Africa was actually a depiction of femicide. The photo showed Red Cross workers carrying the body bags of women who’d been raped and burned alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The image, which was featured on the site American Thinker, was included in a larger blog post that raised concerns about South Africa’s land expropriation law, though the photo is not related to that policy in any way. The picture, as the caption indicates, is a screengrab from a video posted by the Indian outlet WION, which utilized Reuters footage.
Ramaphosa, meanwhile, has firmly dismissed Trump’s genocide claims as part of a “false narrative.” South African officials have emphasized that there’s scant evidence that white farmers have faced more violence than Black farmers in the country, and Ramaphosa noted in February that no land has been confiscated from anyone as the result of a new 2024 law.
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But at least one image Trump was referencing on Wednesday was not even from South Africa.
As Agence France-Presse first reported, an image Trump pointed to while citing violence against white farmers in South Africa was actually a depiction of femicide. The photo showed Red Cross workers carrying the body bags of women who’d been raped and burned alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The image, which was featured on the site American Thinker, was included in a larger blog post that raised concerns about South Africa’s land expropriation law, though the photo is not related to that policy in any way. The picture, as the caption indicates, is a screengrab from a video posted by the Indian outlet WION, which utilized Reuters footage.
Ramaphosa, meanwhile, has firmly dismissed Trump’s genocide claims as part of a “false narrative.” South African officials have emphasized that there’s scant evidence that white farmers have faced more violence than Black farmers in the country, and Ramaphosa noted in February that no land has been confiscated from anyone as the result of a new 2024 law.
Trump Claimed This Photo Proved 'Genocide' Of White South Africans, But There's 1 Big Problem
It's not depicting South Africa at all.