South Africa Farm Killings

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White Cross Monument

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

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White Cross Monument is a memorial only to white people who were 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 in the majority Black country are being targeted in a widespread, race-based system of persecution.

The false narrative has also been spread by conservative commentators in the United States and elsewhere.

There were 49 farm killings recorded by AfriForum , a white Afrikaner lobby group.

That’s about 0.2% of overall murders tallied by the government over the same period.

Most victims of violent crime across South Africa are Black people.

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

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English