Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims ignore the reality of life and crime in South Africa

US president intoned death, death, death' as he waved articles purporting to show violence against white minority

It was an ambush crafted straight from a reality-TV playbook. The Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, started with exchanges of pleasantries, before Donald Trump said turn the lights down" and a video was played to support his false claims that white South African farmers are being murdered for their race.

Ramaphosa came prepared with champion white South African golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, whom the golf-mad Trump referred to as friends", as well as South Africa's richest person, Johann Rupert.