In a meeting with the South African president, US President Trump claimed white South Africans were being killed en masse, and their farmland seized, in an act of genocide. The US recently created a special refugee pathway for white South Africans fleeing these circumstances.
However, global news outlets like Reuters have said claims of white genocide are false.
South African journalist, academic, fact-checker, and author of the 2022 book Farm killings in South Africa Nechama Brodie joins Nights.
US President Donald Trump shows pictures as he meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 21 May, 2025. Photo: AFP
