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‘White genocide’ rings false alarm

Don Makatile

AFRIKANER lobby group AfriForum has been to the mountain top to sound false alarm bells about what they initially described as a white genocide unfolding in South Africa.

In their representations to the international community, they apparently caught the ear of US President Donald Trump, who was reportedly swift to tweet that he’d asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to pay attention to the plight of white farmers in South Africa.

Luckily, the world has come to realise, even at this late hour, to take anything Trump writes on Twitter with a pinch of salt.

It is not helping that he’s unable to sift through the intelligence the white alt-right feed him, to separate

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