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Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?
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21 November 2025
32 minutes
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The US is essentially boycotting this weekend’s G20 summit in South Africa over accusations that the white Afrikaners are ‘being killed and slaughtered’ and that white farmers are having their land ‘illegally confiscated. The South African government say the claims are "widely discredited and unsupported by reliable evidence".
Today we speak to BBC correspondent Andrew Harding, who lived and worked in South Africa for over a decade, to find out where these claims came from.
Producers: Sam Chantarasak and Xandra Ellin
Executive producer: China Collins
Senior news editor: China Collins
Mix: Travis Evans
Photo: Afrikaner farmers rally to show support for President Trump in Pretoria, South Africa. Credit: Kim Ludbrook/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
