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There Is No “White Genocide” in South Africa
Canadian alt-right political activist, Lauren Southern, has released a documentary called ‘
Farmlands‘ which promises to be an expose on the cruelty faced by white South Africans. Through video snippets on her twitter account, Lauren attempts to paint a picture in which BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) laws as well as brutal farm murders have left the country’s white minority destitute and fearing for their lives.
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However, this documentary has thus far proven to be rife with misinformation. The reality is that the majority of white South Africans do not face this type of poverty. In fact, recent studies from BusinessTech have revealed shocking disparities between the wages of black and white South Africans –
with white male professionals earning almost double that of black male professionals. In 2017, Quartz Africa illustrated an employment landscape which starkly contradicts Lauren Southern’s –
one in which black unemployment sits at 31.4% as compared to the 6.6% among white people. These statistics are particularly troubling when noting that white people make up a mere
8.9% of the total South African population; using discretion alone, one can easily see that white South Africans hold a disproportionately large amount of wealth.
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South Africa’s Wage Disparity Across Racial Lines
This can be traced to various operations which took place under the Apartheid government, such as the
Migrant Labour System and
Group Areas Act (1950). To simplify, the Apartheid government displaced millions of black South Africans from land which was rightfully theirs and implemented policies to ensure that they would remain destitute. Additionally, the
Bantu Education Act (1953) guaranteed that black South Africans would receive inadequate education in order to perpetuate a cycle in which they remained subservient laborers. Despite the end of Apartheid roughly 24 years ago, black South Africans remain burdened by legacies of poor education, racial discrimination and the loss of their land – which was never returned.
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This, of course, is why BBBEE (
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) was introduced – an attempt to rectify the unemployment inequalities across South Africa. Furthermore, current President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his support of “
expropriation without compensation” – a principle which will see stolen land being responsibly redistributed among black agricultural workers. A new education plan has also been set in motion which will offer financial assistance to students who cannot afford to attend tertiary institutions.
Yet, not everybody seems joyful about the prospect of supporting equality. ‘
Farmlands‘ strategically exploits the tragic instances of recent farm murders in order to create a “white genocide” agenda in South Africa. It is true that, between 2016 and 2017, 74 farm murders have occurred – with 61% of victims being white. However, the National Operational Coordinating Committee has previously been
unable to prove that these crimes are purely racially motivated.
Furthermore, Lauren fails to mention that many of these “whites-only refugee camps” are in fact
racist “white-only enclaves”
There Is No "White Genocide" in South Africa
No, Katie Hopkins, there is no white genocide in South Africa
Every murder in the country is a tragedy. But most don’t happen on white farms, or even in white areas.
No, Katie Hopkins, there is no white genocide in South Africa
There’s no white genocide in South Africa. I should know: I’m a white South African.
On average, white South Africans
earn five times more than black South Africans. We’re less likely to
live in poverty or
be unemployed. We’re more likely to have access to
quality healthcare services. White people hold the
majority of shares in stocks. Despite the fact that we make up 9% of South Africa’s population,
we own 23.6% of rural land and 11.4% of the urban land, with 67% of the total land being owned by the state, companies, churches, communities and traditional authorities.
That’s not to mention the intangible evidence of white privilege in this country: the microaggressions that suggest white people are superior to black people. I’m not saying that some white South Africans don’t have it hard. Some do – but that’s not because they’re systemically and institutionally oppressed because of their race.
But despite the overwhelming evidence that white South Africans are privileged, many claim that a white genocide is underway in South Africa.
I’m telling you that this is absolutely not true.
There is no white genocide in South Africa.
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Claims about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa unsupported
Claims of a “white genocide” are frequently attributed to
Genocide Watch, an organisation created to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. But the organisation has
publically stated that “white genocide is not underway in South Africa”.
It has, however, ranked South Africa on stage six – the stage of “polarisation” – on its
10 Stages of Genocide. Yet the organisation was not prepared to provide the sources or methodology it used to determine the country’s ranking. Neither would it pinpoint the events in South Africa that met the detailed description of that stage, which includes “extremist terrorism [targeting] moderates”.
Without this information, it is impossible to interrogate their ranking. Experts have also suggested that the organisation’s genocide framework could do more harm than good in combating violence in the country.
No other organisation has warned of a genocide or impending genocide in South Africa. This includes both the
United Nation’s Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and the
Atrocity Forecasting Project
Claims about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa unsupported | Africa Check