Opinion: Laying Bare South Africa’s ‘White Lie’

RUFARO SAMANGA

THERE are many persecuted minorities in the world—white South Africans are certainly not one of those.

For years, and particularly in the last five years, there has been a push through the media by white South Africans to present themselves to the international community as a persecuted minority and one whose persecution has been heightening.

The narrative that there has been an ongoing “white genocide” taking place in South Africa has been gaining worrying traction with various governments from the West responding to this false and dangerous claim.

Frankly speaking, this claim would be hilarious, given its ludicrousness, were it not so devastating for a majority-Black country barely recovering from decades of racial segregation at the hands of an Apartheid regime whose legacy still lives on today in egregious ways.

At a time when Black people around the world, minorities and otherwise, have been leading massive movements against