IN SOUTH AFRICA, BLACK MAJORITY ARE THE REAL OPPRESSED

Thapelo Mohapi, the Secretary General of the Abahlali BasMjondolo, ‘The Residents of the Shacks’ in Zulu (@abahlalibasemjondolo on instagram and @abahlalibM on X), a pro-democracy South African grassroots movement of over 150,000 shack dwellers seeking to reclaim South African land, speaks on the widely regurgitated unfounded claims of a ‘white g*nocide’ in South Africa that has been echoed by ill-informed media figures and politicians like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump.

In recent months, the Trump administration froze aid to South Africa under claims that white settlers are facing persecution. Julius Malema (@julius.malema.sello on IG, @julius_s_malema on X), president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (@effsouthafrica), has called this a US bullying tactic of revenge for South Africa taking Israel to the International Court of Justice over its military onslaught on Gaza.

Mohapi tells BreakThrough News (@btnewsroom on X) hosts @EugenePuryear (on X) and @raniakhalek (on X) that what South Africans are seeking is justice over the grave injustices they have suffered at the hands of European settlers, whose theft has resulted in sharp inequality between Black South Africans and the white minority. The South African Department of Rural Development and Land Reform reported in 2017 that the latter owned over 70 per cent of private farmland while making up less than 8 per cent of the population, according to 2022 government figures.

In light of this, Mohapi further points out the irony in far-right racist South African groups posing as the victims of injustice.

Many have debunked the so-called white g*nocide claim. Further, in February 2025, the Western Cape High Court dismissed the allegations as ‘imagined.’

Video credit: @btnewsroom (YouTube)

Sources

https://abahlali.org

https://www.sbmintel.com/2025/03/africa-watch-no-evidence/

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2025/03/13/in-south-africa-the-courts-dismiss-the-myth-of-white-genocide_6739091_124.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/aid-trump-south-africa

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-06-trumps-us-is-punishing-sa-for-supporting-palestine-against-apartheid-israel-says-malema

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67922346

https://www.gov.za/issues/land-reform

https://www.gov.za/about-sa/south-africas-people