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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Aug 23

    FACT CHECK: Is Trump right about South African farmers? No. There is no reliable data to suggest white farmers are at greater risk of being killed than other South Africans. Plus, the government has not seized any land, although it says it will do so. https://bbc.in/2wiWGpX pic.twitter.com/qEH5olX0Ch

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      2. MJ Slater mozguide‏ @mozguide Aug 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        So, as long the murder rate on farms matches the National annual average of 34/1000, there's no cause for alarm? Totally ignores the point that the commercial farming community is small and close-knit so crime is closer to home.https://africacheck.org/factsheets/south-africas-crime-statistics-201617/ …

        4 replies 8 retweets 9 likes
      3. Deconstructed Patsyology‏ @crimemind3 Aug 23
        Replying to @mozguide @JulaniJulani @BBCAfrica

        Farm murders and murders in fact are welded into the stats to make it look like nothing out of the ordinary. Protecting the ANC

        1 reply 4 retweets 8 likes
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      1. plaasmeisie‏ @sazaross Aug 26
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        That is exactly why you are called a fake news network!!! I am a South African farmer!! And can assure you, that you are the one without any factual ground making a statement like that!😡Thank you @realDonaldTrump for acknowledgement on the problems we face!

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      1. vigilant‏ @davigilant Aug 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @nickturse https://nyatider.nu/bloody-trail-of-murder-in-south-africa/ … Bloody trail of murder in South Africa https://nyatider.nu/bloody-trail-of-murder-in-south-africa/ … … By DAN MALMQVIST

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      2. TheFace‏ @TheFace34 Aug 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Farmers are 5x more likely to be killed than the entire population Government has already put in process the first two farms to be expropriated without compensationpic.twitter.com/pH9Pb0bZmw

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      2. Brownie‏ @Y1123581321Y Aug 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @laurenegambino

        This ignorant, lying, disgusting creature @realDonaldTrump is sticking his filthy face in South Africa's business. When teachers are underpaid, veterans benefits reduced, and infrastructure crumbling in the US. Why don't you focus on actually making the US better? #TrumpIsAFraud

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @Y1123581321Y @BBCAfrica and

        As a white South African farmer, I am eternally grateful to @realDonaldTrump for hearing our voice. Read this book to understand what is happening here please:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GH3M8XM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4VVFBb5R8T9V5 …

        1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
      4. Brownie‏ @Y1123581321Y Aug 23
        Replying to @decolonisedboer @BBCAfrica and

        I do not need to read any book that is a derivative of apartheid. When the whites were grabbing the land from the blacks, where was your book? Your land was acquired by illegal means. Hence it should be returned to the rightful owners, Africans.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @Y1123581321Y @BBCAfrica and

        Look here is deed of sale signed by the Zulu King Dingaan. He sold his land to us. We own the land.pic.twitter.com/9gt29kaMPf

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Brownie‏ @Y1123581321Y Aug 23
        Replying to @decolonisedboer @BBCAfrica and

        Any property acquired during apartheid is illegal. Sale or no sale. What you people did to Black South Africans was beyond disgraceful. Have some shame at least.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @Y1123581321Y @BBCAfrica and

        This land was sold by Dingaan to the Boers in 1838. Apartheid started in 1948. For fcuks sake, you’re out by 110 years, but thanks for trying.

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      2. Chucks Chinwendu‏ @Ichiepresh Aug 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        are you suggesting Trump made up his statement or that the information coming to his desk are wrong?

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @Ichiepresh @BBCAfrica

        The situation we face in South Africa is very real. Read about it here:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GH3M8XM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4VVFBb5R8T9V5 …

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Christopher Sikhau‏ @LSikhau Aug 23
        Replying to @decolonisedboer @Ichiepresh @BBCAfrica

        White man has been setence to life in prison for killing his worker stop with this white propaganda

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @LSikhau @Ichiepresh @BBCAfrica

        One event. That is your argument? As opposed to the 1000s of farmers brutally tortured and murdered by black gangs. Domkop.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Christopher Sikhau‏ @LSikhau Aug 23
        Replying to @decolonisedboer @Ichiepresh @BBCAfrica

        There's nothing like that in South Africa only after the land issue were raised and passed in parliament that's where we here white genocide by racist right wing,who believe that they are the only human being who can farm.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. jan  ⚠️‏ @decolonisedboer Aug 23
        Replying to @LSikhau @Ichiepresh @BBCAfrica

        So you don’t know about farm murders? PLease read this: KILL THE BOER: GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN SOUTH AFRICA’S BRUTAL FARM MURDERS b... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GH3M8XM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4VVFBb5R8T9V5 … via @amazon

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. BornMC Kabe257‏ @CyrilKabe Aug 24
        Replying to @decolonisedboer @LSikhau and

        But the author is Ernst Roets, from AFRIFORUM,, that tainted racist propaganda organisation in Pretoria,,, Should we black people really read that book???

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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