r/southafrica • u/Empty-Champion6929 • May 22 '25

Discussion Genocide?

There are claims that there is a genocide taking place in South Africa and I think the fact that the US is adamantly propagating this propagandistic narrative is more reason not to trust them.

Furthermore, I am disappointed in Trump's refusal to at least consider Ramaphosa's sentiments during yesterday's meeting. He seems to be both gullible and ignorant.

I should finally mention that I am deeply hurt by our fellow white South Africans who are proudly reinforcing these claims of genocide. I know that our country is run by an incompetent and self-serving government that seems to not have any concerns about economic development. However, seeing a cohort of white people take the stance of validating that there is a genocide is painful to witness.

As someone born post apartheid, I'm finally starting to see.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

I should finally mention that I am deeply hurt by our fellow white South Africans who are proudly reinforcing these claims of genocide.

Wait, who are these? Most of us WC Afrikaners don't reinforce those claims at all. The stark majority of us are really anti-Trump.

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u/TolyVilapoo May 22 '25

The people who reinforce it are usually small town people who don't even know what an informal settlement looks like. The kind who don't understand what it's like to go to sleep hungry.

I recently interviewed someone who claimed they couldn't get a job anywhere since she was white. Mind you both her parents were employed, her mother was working in admin for an afrikaans accounting firm for the last 30 odd years earning upwards of 25k per month, while her dad had a well established contracting business.

Not lavish but fairly comfortable. Couldn't see that despite the fact that she had the ability and opportunities to study through correspondence, lived debt free etc was something unique, but was adamant she was being hindered by BEE etc.

Most of these people live in echo chambers. And they can't help but see themselves as victims. Yet they are the first to claim Africans want everything handed to them on a silver platter through govt.

Now I know this might seem to be Cherry picking, but the reality is that we're all in the shit together, and the way out is to become more vocal. The sad reality is that those who spout the white genocide claims have been doing this for years and have weaponised it, and entrenched it into the minds of every keyboard warrior who can't read statistics or identify the real problems even after it's been shoved down their throats.

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u/AlignedHurdle May 22 '25

Sadly a lot of the supporters of this narrative, or rather supporters of the same group that are pushing this narrative, are in the tech industry in SA. Go read the comments on mybroadband and you’ll see the most racist, brainwashed, entitled group of supposedly intelligent people you can imagine. In their case I suspect it originated from Elon-worship, and once he decided to openly be a nazi, they were too far into the phoney stark cult to admit their hero is a shitbag, so they go along with his politics as well.

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u/likawoopitiki May 22 '25

That little forum still alive? One can hardly judge an entire industry off of the behaviour of a few rotten apples.

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u/fyreflow Western Cape May 23 '25

It’s more than a few, but you’re right — and on MyBB, you can’t really tell whether they’re industry professionals or just tech aficionados, anyway. All the publications in the Broad Media stable has this problem, and it’s getting worse. Might have something to do with the Buzzfeed-like headlines that pull in that particular crowd.