Letter from Johannesburg
The little sentence could have gone unnoticed if it did not demolish a concept intimately linked to the recent white house attacks against South Africa. In a judgment rendered in mid-February, a South African magistrate described the concept of “white genocide” in the country of“Imaginary”. Crazy by certain supremacist groups, the expression refers to the idea that white farmers are victims of violent murders in proportions higher than the rest of the South African population. A fantasy a thousand times dissipated, again propelled to the front of the stage.
Already in 2018, during his first mandate, Donald Trump was worried about Twitter “Large -scale murder of farmers” in South Africa. Back to power, he signed, on February 7, a decree ending international aid intended for the country and offering the status of refugee to Afrikaners – the descendants of the first Dutch, French and German settlers -, notably by accusing the government of “Nourish disproportionate violence against the owners of racly disadvantaged land”.
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