South Africa police minister says Trump's genocide claim 'twisted'
During a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump played a clip showing dozens of white crosses that he claimed were graves of murdered white south Africans. The crosses were in fact an art piece made for a memorial years ago
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00:01South African police minister called U.S. President Donald Trump's claims of an Africana genocide twisted.
00:08During a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump played a clip showing dozens of white crosses that he claimed were graves of murdered white South Africans.
00:18We have respect for the United States of America as a country.
00:24We have respect for the people of the United States, and we have respect for the President of the United States, President Donald Trump.
00:35But we have no respect for his genocide story whatsoever.
00:44It is totally unfounded and totally unsubstantiated.
00:51For months, Trump and his close aide, Elon Musk, have falsely claimed that an Africana genocide was taking place in the country.
00:58The incident sparked a very strong protest by the farming community in the area.
01:05The crosses symbolized killings on farms over years.
01:11They are not graves.
01:14They don't represent graves.
01:17And it was unfortunate that those facts got twisted to fit a false narrative about crime in South Africa.
01:31I really would like us to talk about it.
01:35The genocide accusation has even been laughed at by white South Africans, its supposed victims.
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