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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bothaville, South Africa – 15 May 2025
1. Wide of farmers and visitors at agricultural show
2. Visitors looking at agricultural machines
3. Wide of memorial site dedicated to farmers and farm workers
4. People looking at memorial
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Bothaville, South Africa – 16 May 2025
5. South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, speaking with attendees at agricultural event
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Steenhuisen, South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture:
“We mustn’t mischaracterize things as a genocide and the like, it’s not the case at all because as we’ve seen when you mischaracterize things like that and this misinformation gets out it does have real world consequences. And we’ve seen with the United States what those real world consequences are. And I really hope that during the upcoming visit to Washington, the President (South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa) is going to be able to put the facts before his counterparts and to demonstrate, there’s no mass expropriation of land taking place in South Africa. There’s no genocide taking place. Yes, we have crime issues, but as a government, we have committed resources and policing to deal with it.”
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Bothaville, South Africa – 15 May 2025
7. Mid of people looking at tractor
8. Wide of people at agricultural event
9. Mid of seller by equipment
10. Wide of a seller speaking with farmer Thobani Ntonga
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Thobani Ntonga, farmer:
“Crime affects both Black and white. I’ve been a victim of crime on the farm and I’m not white. I don’t even think along those lines. We certainly don’t… we’re not inclined to think along those lines. We’re not basing it on colour at all, it’s an issue of vulnerability I believe, and as a result farmers are easier targets.”
12. Wide of people and machine at agricultural event
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thobani Ntonga, farmer:
“Farmers are separated from your general public. We’re not near towns, we are in the rurals (areas) and I think it’s exactly that. So, perpetrators they thrive on that, on the fact that farms are isolated.”
14. Mid of people looking at agricultural equipment
15. Mid of agricultural equipment at agricultural event
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Willem de Chavonnes Vrugt, farmer:
“We’re not interested in going anywhere. The thing we want to do is be part of this country, produce enough healthy food, by doing so, grow the economy, providing jobs, empowering people and that’s part of our business and we would like to see more inclusive growth in our business. But we need some certainty and one of those certainties is rural safety.”
17. Brahman cow being sold at agricultural event
18. Close of cow
19. Crowd of farmers at agricultural event
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Polokwane, South Africa – 15 May 2025
20. Various of monument to murdered farmers and farmworkers
STORYLINE:
Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House this week, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country’s agricultural heartland, some touching the names of the dead — both Black and white.
In Bothaville, where thousands of farmers gathered for a lively agricultural fair with everything from grains to guns on display, even some conservative white Afrikaner groups debunked the Trump administration’s “genocide” and land seizure claims that led it to cut all financial aid to South Africa.
Some at the agricultural fair said fleeing the country isn’t one of them.
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