Overview

• Julius Malema, leader of South Africa's EFF party, pledged to continue chanting 'Kill the Boer,' calling it a legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle, despite international backlash.
• During a May 21 Oval Office meeting, Donald Trump showed Cyril Ramaphosa a video alleging 'white genocide,' which included footage of Malema chanting and a misrepresented farm memorial.
• Nathan Rafferty, whose parents were murdered in a 2020 farm attack, criticized Trump for using footage of their memorial to support genocide claims, calling it deeply traumatic.
• South Africa's Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein supported Trump’s confrontation but criticized the framing, emphasizing broader violent crime affecting all South Africans.
• Afriforum argued that South Africa’s failure to condemn 'Kill the Boer' rhetoric contravenes the Genocide Convention, undermining its own ICJ case against Israel.