The man who organised a display of white crosses in South Africa, an image of which was shown by Donald Trump on Wednesday, has said that the US president was wrong when he described it as a "burial site".

Mtambo and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Facing a barrage of debunked claims from U.S. President Donald Trump that white people were being persecuted in his country, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa remained composed,

Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with images and video clips that he said show an ongoing "genocide" against white farmers in the country.

In a salient moment with the leader of South Africa, President Donald Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for a thousand white farmers -- the victims of what he has called a genocide -- along a roadside in South Africa.

During talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington on May 21, 2025, Donald Trump screened a video meant to support unfounded claims of the "persecution" of white farmers. This included aerial footage showing white crosses lining a road filled with a convoy of vehicles.

Trump’s false “genocide” claims forced race to the forefront of national conversation in South Africa in a way rarely seen since the end of apartheid.

One of South Africa’s most esteemed newspapers bashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for blindsiding the country’s leader during the duo’s Oval Office meeting. “U.S. president Donald Trump blindsided his counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa during their meeting in the White House’s Oval Office by playing a montage of video clips of EFF leader Julius Malema singing about killing white people,