Genocide? Even Afrikaner farmers laugh at Trump’s claims

Days before South Africa’s president meets his U.S. counterpart 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.

Here in Bothaville, where thousands of farmers gathered for a lively agricultural fair with everything from grains to guns on display,…