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Yet Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, said that the spirit of NAMPO this week reaffirms that “genocide” of white South African farmers “was imaginary and not happening in our country.”



“I think the refugees that have gone [to the U.S.] are not well-established family farming businesses like we are,” Harris, a farmer of Afrikaans heritage, told the paper. “I think they don’t have an opportunity in the country and they might think that, ‘This is an opportunity for us.’ I don’t think they’re really fleeing because they are scared or worried, I think they see it as an opportunity.”

“There is no genocide in South Africa,” Boshoff, CEO of AgBiz, added. “People who live in rural areas, who are often farmers, are simply more vulnerable to crime and violent crime because they live in remote areas.”

“We can see that farm murders in South Africa have a slightly higher rate per capita than murders in general, but it’s farmers and farmworkers, which is not all necessarily white,” Minnaar Chairman of AGRI Sa said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-musk-south-africa-refugee-claims-white-farmers-genocide-rcna206327