While violence remains a serious issue in South Africa, the video Trump played did not show 1,000 “burial sites” or prove there is a white genocide in the country.

They are so excited about the future of South Africa." They want to farm in a country, Serfontein says, where most people understand that the land must be shared by both Black and White.

MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a reminder of a terrible story of a person ...

More than 15,000 South Africans came on temporary visas to perform farm labor last year, U.S. data show. Hartzenberg told me his family grew vegetables on their farm in South Africa.

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(South Africa has Black farmers, too; the official data is not broken down by race.) The other 29 victims included farm employees, who tend to be Black.

Hartzenberg told me his family grew vegetables on their farm in South Africa. He hoped to return to farming in Idaho, he said, but he wasn’t sure what work might be available.

MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a reminder of a terrible story of a person being ...