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White genocide in South Africa is a false claim that white farmers in South Africa are being killed and targeted because they are white, and that the killings are connected to land based policies. The Institute for Security Studies describes the white genocide conspiracy theory as the claim that white South Africans face a genocide, including unproven allegations that attacks on farms and smallholdings are part of a political campaign to force white farmers off their land.[1]

Right wing figures such as Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Steve Hofmeyr have falsely claimed there is a white genocide in South Africa. The South African government, police minister and the United Nations human rights office reject the idea of a white genocide in south Africa. President of Genocide Watch has said the group never claimed a white genocide is underway. The ADL has called such a claim baseless. A 2026 poll found that most South Africans do not agree a white genocide is happening in the country.

The Anti-Defamation League documented that organized activity around the claim of a "genocide of Whites" in South Africa began in 2011, when Monica Stone, described by the ADL as a longtime member of the Louisiana-based white supremacist Christian Defense League and an immigrant from South Africa, originated a protest movement called the "South Africa Project." The ADL stated that in February 2012, this project organized protests at multiple US state capitols, and that the organizers included representatives "from major neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, 'traditional white supremacist,' Christian Identity groups, as well as racist prison gangs." The ADL stated that "since then, white supremacist references to 'genocide' in South Africa have been common."[2]

Promotion of the narrative

News outlets and advocacy groups such as The Conversation, NPR, HuffPost and the Anti Defamation League, have identified some public figures in South Africa and the United States as promoters of the white genocide claim.

The Conversation credits South African singers Steve Hofmeyr and Sunette Bridges with popularising the idea of white genocide through their Red October campaign. It says they advocate that farm murders in South Africa come down to white genocide.[3] Africa Check examined conspiracy theories and claims of a politically motivated "white genocide" in 2013, including claims by Hofmeyr, a popular Afrikaans musician. It reported that he said white South Africans were being killed "like flies," that a white farmer is murdered every five days, and that the number of whites killed by black South Africans would fill a World Cup soccer stadium.[4]

TRT World reports that genocide claims about white South Africans have been picked up and amplified by activists from the West, including Lauren Southern. It says she produced a 2018 documentary called Farmlands that essentially portrays South Africa as a place where an alleged white genocide occurs.[5] The Anti-Defamation League describes Southern as a Canadian alt-right personality and says Farmlands promoted the notion of "genocide against the white population ready to erupt in an all-out race war."[6]

HuffPost reported in June 2019 that Fox News host Tucker Carlson promoted a white nationalist conspiracy theory linking South Africa's post-apartheid land reform plans to an alleged genocide against white farmers. According to HuffPost, he said on his show that skin color was a central motivation. He also described the violence as racist violence as brutal as anything under apartheid. He accused The New York Times of suggesting white farmers deserve to be murdered because the paper did not say whether the recent killing of a white farmer was tied to a land dispute.[7]

The Anti-Defamation League said President Donald Trump's August 2018 tweet closely echoed a longstanding and false white supremacist claim that white farmers in South Africa are targets of racially motivated killings and that "white genocide" was occurring there. In the tweet, Trump said he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to closely study South Africa's land and farm seizures and expropriations and the "large scale killing of farmers."[8]

NPR's Code Switch said Elon Musk, who is South African, has promoted the white genocide idea on Twitter.[9]

South African government

South African courts and government officials have rejected claims of a "white genocide", citing no evidence that white farmers are systematically targeted for violence. Court rulings, parliamentary discussions, police statistics and Cabinet statements have challenged the claims.

High Court ruling in the Boerelegioen estate case

A South African high court ruled in February 2025 that a white genocide is not real. It said so while deciding the fate of a $2.1 million donation to a group called Boerelegioen.

The BBC reports that the donor's siblings, who are trustees and beneficiaries of the family trust, took the case to court. They said their brother had become obsessed with an impending genocide of white people in South Africa in the last 10 years of his life. Judge Rosheni Allie wrote that the donor wanted the money to go to an organisation he believed would defend against a white genocide. She called that genocide clearly imagined and not real. The court set the donation aside as invalid, vague and contrary to public policy. Judge Allie also wrote that the donor's belief was fuelled by his racism and the online content he saw. [10]

Equality Court and Constitutional Court

South Africa's Equality Court and Constitutional Court ruled on the chant "Kill the Boer". Judge Edwin Molahlehi found no evidence that the chant is tied to the murders of white farmers.

Polity reports that Elon Musk accused Julius Malema of openly pushing for the genocide of white people in South Africa because of this chant.[11] AfriForum brought the case against Malema and the EFF. Judge Molahlehi ruled in August 2022 that it was a hate speech case that AfriForum failed to prove.AfriForum argued the song incites violence and fuels farm murders.Molahlehi said the words are not to be taken literally. He found no evidence linking the chanting to the murders of white farmers or of any farmers.Two farm attack survivors who testified for AfriForum gave no link between the song and what happened to them. Molahlehi also said AfriForum failed to show that the lyrics show a clear intention to incite harm.[12] On 27 March 2025, the Constitutional Court refused AfriForum leave to appeal the court said the application bears no reasonable prospects of success.[13]

Parliament's Police and Agriculture committees

Parliament's portfolio committees on police and agriculture met on 19 March 2025 and discussed whether white genocide is happening. Members and the Police Minister said the figures do not show farmers being targeted.

Daily Maverick reports that a South African Police Service presentation showed 12 murders linked to farming communities between October and December 2024. One of the dead was a farmer. The other victims were four farm employees, five people staying on farms and one security officer. Makashule Gana of Rise Mzansi told the meeting there is no targeting or mass killing of farmers. He said there is no deliberate organised killing of farmers and that the statistics do not support it. He wanted both committees to tell the public so. Fadiel Adams of the National Coloured Congress asked whether the committees could put out a statement that there is no such thing as a white genocide. Agriculture committee chair Dina Pule said she was hesitant to issue a statement, because it could fuel certain narratives. She said crime touches everyone. Police committee chair Ian Cameron said the cruelty of farm attacks cuts across racial lines. Police Minister Senzo Mchunu told the meeting that those concerned about genocide of white farmers should rely on scientific evidence.[14]

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has said there is no white genocide in South Africa. He gave police figures on farm murders when he released the crime statistics on 23 May 2025.

AFP reports that Mchunu called the genocide conspiracy totally unfounded and totally unsubstantiated. He said police do not normally split crime figures by race, but he did so for farm murders because of the claims of genocide of white people.[15] SAnews, the government news agency, reports that he said farm murders have always included African people in more numbers. He said the two farm owners murdered between January and March 2025 were African, as were two farm employees and a farm manager. One farm dweller was white.[16] AFP reports that he also rejected the claim that the government is expropriating land held by white farmers. In a written reply to a parliamentary question on 6 June 2025, the Minister of Police called the idea of a white genocide a recurring international claim. The reply said official data and academic research do not support the idea that white farmers are targeted in a systematic or racially motivated campaign.[17]

Cabinet

South Africa's Cabinet has said there is no genocide in the country. Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni delivered the Cabinet's position at post-Cabinet briefings.

On 15 May 2025, Ntshavheni said Cabinet emphasises that there is no genocide in South Africa. She said police statistics on farm crimes do not support claims of widespread violence or genocide targeted at farmers or any racial group. SAnews reports that she also said allegations of discrimination against Afrikaners are unfounded and fall short of the persecution required under refugee law.[18] On 30 July 2026, she said Cabinet had noted reports that white South Africans who resettled in the United States under the falsehood of a white genocide had been denied visas. She said those who return are welcome.[19] Business Day reports that in court papers answering a defamation suit by Solidarity, Ntshavheni said the claim that white Afrikaner farmers suffer disproportionately from murder, robbery and rape is not true. The suit is over a Cabinet statement that Solidarity says accused it of spreading misinformation about white genocide.[20]

Human rights groups and other organizations

Human rights organizations and research groups have rejected claims of a white genocide in South Africa based on a lack of evidence. The United Nations Human Rights Office has criticized the use of the term genocide, while groups including the Anti-Defamation League, Genocide Watch and Southern Poverty Law Center have challenged the claims and their use by white supremacists.

Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League has said claims of white genocide in South Africa are baseless. On 9 August 2023, the ADL issued a statement signed by its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, on the song "Kill the Boer." Greenblatt wrote that the song's lyrics could be interpreted as a call for violence. He also wrote that baseless claims of "white genocide" have been made by right-wing extremists in the US, particularly white supremacists, for years. He said such charges have been used to excuse hate, justify harassment and rationalize violence.[21]

In a statement on 23 August 2018, the ADL called President Trump's tweet about South Africa's white farmers a false white supremacist claim. The ADL said its Center on Extremism documented a 2012 white supremacist effort called the "South Africa Project," which aimed to stop an alleged genocide of whites in South Africa. It said white supremacist references to genocide in South Africa have been common since.[22]

United Nations Human Rights Office

A spokesperson of the United nations Human rights office in Geneva on 23 May 2025, said that calling what is happening to white South Africans a genocide is wholly inappropriate.[23]

AFP reports that spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the word genocide should not be used casually without deep knowledge of what it means. She said looking at the history of South Africa, it is wholly inappropriate.[24] Africa Check reported in an analysis of Genocide Watch that the United Nations has not placed South Africa on a genocide watch list.[25]

Genocide Watch

Genocide Watch lists South Africa at stage six of its stages of genocide. Its president, Gregory Stanton, says the group has never said a white genocide is underway.

Africa Check reports that Stanton told it, Genocide Watch has never said white genocide is underway in South Africa. He called the claim that South Africa is undergoing a white genocide a false use of the group's model. He said it is made by some South Africans, racists in the United States and a few South African expatriates. Africa Check reports that Stanton said the group's qualitative indicators for South Africa came from news reports and direct reports from people of all races and groups.[26] Polity published a warning from Stanton in December 2014. He said early warnings of genocide run deep in South African society, though genocide has not begun.[27]

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center says the white genocide claim about South Africa is a white nationalist narrative. It published its analysis in August 2018.

The SPLC wrote that President Trump's tweet on South Africa signified the mainstreaming of white nationalist narratives about white genocide, of which farm murders are an essential component. It defines genocide as an organized, systematic attempt at extermination by a government or non-state actors. It wrote that all efforts to prove that the ANC government is complicit in mass killings fall flat. The SPLC also wrote that white nationalists have used South Africa's ranking in Genocide Watch's system to argue that genocide is imminent or underway. It wrote that Genocide Watch's director, Gregory Stanton, has explicitly denied this.[28]

Institute for Security Studies

The Institute for Security Studies, a research group based in Pretoria, says there is no white genocide in South Africa.

Newham wrote that there is no "white genocide" in South Africa. He wrote that two independent inquiries into farm attacks, one under police minister Steve Tshwete and one by the South African Human Rights Commission, examined claims of a political campaign to force white farmers off their land. He wrote that neither inquiry found evidence for it. He wrote that the motive for farm murders is almost always robbery and not an intent to destroy an ethnic group. He wrote that whether genocide has been committed is a matter of international law under the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1998 Rome Statute. If the Trump administration believes genocide is happening, Newham wrote, legal avenues exist and none have been pursued.[29] PolitiFact quotes Newham saying that if there were any evidence of genocide or targeted violence against any group because of ethnicity, the institute would be among the first to raise the alarm.[30]

Public opinion

A March 2026 poll found that a large majority of South Africans rejected claims of white genocide, including half of white respondents. Interviews with Afrikaner farmers and other South Africans have shown some fears of alleged violence and many rejecting the genocide claims.

Institute of Race Relations poll, March 2026

The Institute of Race Relations polled South Africans on whether a white genocide is taking place.

The Institute of Race Relations says it polled 1,038 registered voters between 9 and 20 March 2026, with a margin of error of about three percentage points. The Institute reports that 72% of South Africans disagreed that a white genocide is taking place, and only 19% agreed. The Common Sense reported the results by race, based on respondents' view of Trump's claim that a white genocide is happening. Overall, 71% disagreed and 20% agreed, and the rest were unsure or would not say. Among white respondents, 50% disagreed and 37% agreed. Among Black respondents, 74% disagreed and 17% agreed. Among coloured respondents, 82% disagreed, 11% agreed and 7% were unsure or would not say. Among Indian respondents, 58% disagreed and 32% agreed. The report's author, Hermann Pretorius, said the overwhelming majority of citizens, including most whites, do not accept the language of white genocide as an accurate description of their society.[31][32]

Nampo agricultural fair

Afrikaner farmers at South Africa's biggest agricultural fair were split on whether a white genocide is happening. Agence France-Presse spoke to them in May 2025, days after the first Afrikaner refugees left for the United States.

AFP reports that maize farmer John Potgieter, 31, said there is no doubt there is a genocide in South Africa. He pointed to a monument listing the names of farmers killed in attacks since the 1960s and said the white Afrikaner minority is a target. He added that genocide is a broad word and not a mass genocide like the Holocaust. Sheep and goat farmer Eduard van der Westhuizen told AFP that it is much safer on a farm than in a town. He said there are problems and sometimes murders, but they are not targeted. A farm equipment dealer called Trump's invitation to resettle a farce. Danny Snyman, 18, said Trump had raised awareness about the issues, though he had never heard of any murders, only a lot of stealing.[33] The Associated Press reported from the same fair that even some conservative white Afrikaner groups denied the genocide claims.[34]

CBS News interviews, May 2025

CBS News interviewed Afrikaners in May 2025 about a white genocide in South Africa.

CBS News reported that Dolf Grobler, who applied for resettlement in the United States, said he is worried that unproven genocide, which is mainly focused on white farmers, was going to spread. Piet Croucamp of North-West University told CBS News there is no sign of a white genocide and never has been. He said whites are economically the strongest group in South Africa. Cattle farmer Nick Serfontein told CBS News that a white genocide is not happening. He said he feels safe and sleeps with his doors open on the farm. CBS News also reports that claims of a white genocide are often circulated by right-wing groups, but the view is not held widely within the Afrikaner community.[35]

60 Minutes interviews

CBS News's 60 Minutes interviewed farmers and others in South Africa about President Trump's claim of a genocide of white farmers. It aired in February 2026.

CBS News reports that Rene Nel, whose husband Tollie was murdered on their farm in 2024, said Trump's use of the word genocide does not fit what she knows or has seen. She views the killing as a crime of opportunity by people who knew there was money and firearms on the farm. Johan Kotze, the head of South Africa's largest agricultural organisation, travelled to Washington to explain the situation to administration officials. He told CBS News he was shocked when they asked him about white genocide. He said he is as Afrikaans as one can get and never witnessed that. Max du Preez, an Afrikaans journalist, told CBS News there are no large-scale killings of farmers. He said Trump was fed the link between farm murders and genocide, and that there is no such thing.[36]

Conspiracy theories

Elon Musk has argued on X that a genocide of white people is being pushed in South Africa. In July 2023, Musk wrote on X that Julius Malema was openly pushing for the genocide of white people in South Africa. Polity reports that Musk was reacting to Malema chanting "Kill the Boer" at the Economic Freedom Fighters' tenth anniversary rally at FNB Stadium. Musk tagged President Cyril Ramaphosa and asked why he said nothing.[11] NBC News reports that Musk has accused the Ramaphosa government of doing too little to stop what he calls a genocide against white farmers.[37]

In March 2025, Musk replied to a video of a Malema rally and wrote that a major political party in South Africa is actively promoting white genocide. He added that a whole arena was chanting about killing white people.[38] IOL reports that in the same period Musk said South Africa had passed a law that lets property be taken from white people at will with no payment. He also said Starlink cannot get a license in South Africa because he is not Black.[39]

President Donald Trump has claimed genocide is taking place against white farmers in South Africa. PBS NewsHour reports that on 12 May 2025 a reporter asked Trump why he created a faster path to the United States for Afrikaners. Trump answered that they are being killed and that a genocide is taking place that the press does not want to write about. He added that white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated.[40] FactCheck.org reports that Trump also said the newspapers and television media do not talk about it.[41]

On 21 May 2025, Trump played a video in the Oval Office for President Cyril Ramaphosa. Axios reports that he said the video showed burial sites of over a thousand white farmers. It reports that Trump said the video showed dead white farmers, mostly.[42] On 7 November 2025, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Afrikaners are being killed and slaughtered and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. Al Jazeera reports that he said no US official would attend the G20 summit in South Africa while these human rights abuses continue.[43]

On his 30 September 2026 show, Tucker Carlson claiimed hundreds of white South Africans have been killed, and he called this documented. Media Matters reports that he said every one of them was killed by a Black South African, and it is racially motivated. He said the testimony of almost every survivor supports this. He asked why the Anti-Defamation League would attack survivors and their families. He also rejected Wikipedia's description of white genocide as a conspiracy theory. He said the white share of the population in the United States and Europe has fallen over decades and called those facts.[44]

Briefly reports that the episode was titled "The Most Sickening Story the Media Says Doesn't Exist: South Africa's White Genocide." Briefly says Carlson used the account of a 2010 farm attack, told by guest Leon Lotz, to argue that international media deliberately suppress or dismiss what he called the ethnic cleansing of white South Africans.[45] Al Jazeera reports in an opinion piece that on 3 March 2025 Carlson opened an interview with Ernst Roets by saying South Africa appears to be collapsing and its government is essentially genocidally racist.[46]

The Spectator reported in December 2023 that Steve Hofmeyr thinks genocide is the right word. He said that anyone who thinks the killing of farmers is not enough to call it genocide should ask those farmers about their land, language, religion, education, universities, heritage, monuments, safety and dignity. He added the race-based rules placed on them and their children to that list.[47]

IOL reports that Pieter Groenewald, then chairman of the Freedom Front Plus, said farm murders can justifiably be viewed as genocide when measured against international norms. He said the United Nations Human Rights Commission should force the ANC government to take urgent steps to stop them. IOL reports that his party planned to submit two motions on this to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation in Brussels. It reports that the party's earlier leader, Pieter Mulder, had told the United Nations in Geneva at the end of 2014 about farm murders, Afrikaans, affirmative action and other abuses against minorities.[48]

References

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