The Herald (South Africa)

Talk of white SA genocide rubbish

High crime rate

- Dan Mccarthy, Bethelsdor­p, Port Elizabeth

I RECENTLY discovered on social media platforms as well as on the internet articles and topics about a white genocide currently taking place in South Africa and I ask myself the question as to who came up with this load of hogwash and why?

As we know statistics are not 100% accurate, but we all know for a fact that according to crime statistics there are more black murders than those of other races seeing that blacks are 79% of the country’s population.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destructio­n, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group, though what constitute­s enough of a “part” to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate.

Looking at the dozens of websites regarding “white South African genocide watch”, I realised that most are just propaganda to stir up a volatile political crisis currently embracing our country.

If, like most white genocide websites stipulate, between 1 and 2% of the white population have been murdered since 1994, how many can prove that any of these were politicall­y motivated?

Farm murders are definitely not a rumour, but also bear in mind that 95% of commercial farmers are white therefore the farm murder rate will have 100% white statistics.

Note that most of these commercial farmers are the elderly and vulnerable located on isolated farms.

What about the hundreds of thousands of blacks murdered in townships and rural areas? What about the young innocent coloured children killed in gang shoot-outs?

A genocide is a mass exterminat­ion of an ethnic group at a given time and 1 or 2% of a population is not exactly mass exterminat­ion, but a crime statistic affecting all South Africans. Government should have any website regarding white genocide propaganda removed from the worldwide web as it highlights the whites who still feel inferior and to hell with the rest of us blacks who are also murdered, raped and tortured daily.

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