Affluent businessman Johann Rupert has clarified that it’s not just white farmers that are being killed in South Africa but the scourge is affecting everyone.
Ruppert is among President Cyril Ramaphosa’s delegation that met with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, 21 May.
The Presidency said the purpose of the visit is to reset and revitalise bilateral relations between South Africa and the United States. In this regard, the visit will focus specifically on reframing bilateral, economic and commercial relations.
JOHANN RUPERT SAYS CRIMINALITY DOESN’T AFFECT ONLY WHITE FARMERS
Despite the South African government disputing the white genocide myth several times, even through diplomatic channels, Trump insists that Afrikaners are under persecution in South Africa.
Last Monday, a group of 49 Afrikaners, including children, left South Africa on Sunday, 11 May, and landed in the US on Monday, 12 May. This, after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting white farmers asylum, falsely saying they were being persecuted, and the South African government was confiscating their land and farms without compensation.
During the visit, Trump ambushed Ramaphosa and his delegation about farm murders and land expropriation without compensation.
He even went as far as handing out articles about farm murders and playing videos of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party singing the struggle song ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer’ and questioned why Malema has not been arrested for his utterances.
In response, Johann Rupert said the main issue in South Africa is crime and it doesn’t affect white farmers only, but it’s across the board.
“It’s not only white farmers, it’s across the board. We need technological help, we need Starlink at every police station, we need drones,” he said.
Rupert said the country has a serious problem of illegal immigrants and unemployment which contributes to the overall high rate of crime.
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