By Simon Nare
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has debunked US President Donald Trump’s “evidence” of South African white genocide. It is a picture of crosses alongside a road, which were presented as graves of white people whose deaths were racially motivated.
Speaking during a briefing on the quarterly crime statistics in Pretoria on Friday, the minister provided clarity on the crosses which he said were put alongside a road between Newcastle and Normandien in KwaZulu-Natal. They were in solidarity with a farmer and his wife who were killed on their farm at Hanover in 2020.
Mchunu said the crosses were not grave marks of farmers killed as presented by Trump.
During a meeting with a South African delegation led by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, Trump presented pictures of the crosses as a graveside of white farmers killed in what he termed as genocide.
In response to the ambush, Ramaphosa
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