General Discussion

Manufactured, racist, dishonest claim would be more like it.

"Based on multiple sources, claims of white oppression in South Africa are not supported by evidence. White South Africans continue to maintain significant economic advantages, controlling approximately 70% of private farmland despite representing only 7% of the population. A 2021 Human Rights Commission study revealed that only 1% of whites live in poverty compared to 64% of Blacks. Prominent Afrikaner groups have explicitly rejected claims of oppression and refused offers of refugee status."

"Several important contextual elements are crucial to understand: the land reform issue is often misrepresented - the law requires compensation and mandates attempts to reach agreements with landowners first; farm attacks, while concerning, hit a 30-year low in 2017-18, and there's no evidence suggesting these crimes are racially motivated rather than related to farms being isolated and perceived as wealthy targets; the South African government explicitly states that land reform is about addressing historical inequalities from colonialism and apartheid, not targeting white people specifically."

"The 'white genocide' narrative has been identified as a white nationalist conspiracy theory based on pseudoscience and ethnic hatred. This narrative benefits specific groups: far-right political figures like Trump, who made unsubstantiated claims about "terrible things happening" to white South Africans; white nationalist groups who use these claims to promote racial division; those opposing land reform who benefit from maintaining the status quo of land ownership."

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/white-oppression-south-africa-bc75d7