This week US President Donald Trump met with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office in Washington DC along with their respective delegations. But one man who wasn't even present loomed large over proceedings.
To try to prove his claims of a white genocide in South Africa, Trump showed Ramaphosa clips of EFF leader Julius Malema chanting “Kill the Boer” and advocating for land occupation. “Why don’t you arrest that man?” he pressed Ramaphosa.
Ramaphosa and his delegation denied Malema was an elected official inciting “white genocide”, stressing that violent crime affects all South Africans, not just white farmers.
Malema, presumably a little taken aback by all the attention, responded to the clip on social media, describing the leaders and their delegation as “a group of older men” who met to “gossip about him”.
“No significant amount of intelligence evidence has been produced about white genocide,” he said.
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