Overview
- Sunday’s 60 Minutes report said it found no evidence to support the president’s assertion that white, predominantly Afrikaner farmers are facing a genocide.
- Darrel Brown, the farmer whose roadside crosses appeared in a White House video, said they were temporary memorials and not burial sites.
- South African police recorded more than 25,000 murders in 2024, with about 37 on farms, and experts noted that many farmers and farmworkers are Black and also victimized.
- The broadcast follows the president’s 2025 executive order cutting U.S. aid to South Africa and creating a resettlement pathway for some Afrikaners, policies that remain in place.
- AgriSA’s Johan Kotzé and other sources attributed farm attacks to criminality, while Afrikaner activists and right-leaning outlets criticized the segment as minimizing brutality and racially charged rhetoric, including chants highlighted by the president.