South Africa Farm Killings Myth

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A hillside of white crosses fuels a misleading story about South Africa's farm killings

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A hillside of white crosses fuels a misleading story about South Africa's farm killings.

Nearly 3,000 white crosses on a hill in South Africa are a memorial to white people killed on farms over the last three decades .

It's a visceral snapshot seized on by some South Africans to drive a discredited narrative that white farmers are being targeted in a widespread, race-based system of persecution.

The killings of farmers and farmworkers, regardless of race, are a tiny percentage of crime.

There is no public relations campaign to raise awareness about the killing of Black farmers.

Between January and March , there were six murders on farms, down from 12 during the same period last year .

Trump administration has cited a chant used by a minority Black-led political party in South Africa that has the lyrics "shoot the farmer".

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