Nellie Peyton
@Reuters correspondent in Johannesburg, previously Dakar. Gaby Rado Award for best new journalist 2021.
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kfgo.com | Nellie Peyton |Bhargav Acharya
By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav AcharyaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A local representative of an area shown in a video played at the White House said she was “sad” that U.S. President Donald Trump used the footage of hundreds of white crosses as false evidence of mass killings of white South African farmers.
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1 month ago |
kelo.com | Nellie Peyton |Bhargav Acharya
By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav AcharyaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A local representative of an area shown in a video played at the White House said she was “sad” that U.S. President Donald Trump used the footage of hundreds of white crosses as false evidence of mass killings of white South African farmers.
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1 month ago |
businesslive.co.za | Tim Cocks |Nellie Peyton |Siyanda Mthethwa |Milan Pavicic
SA has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of 72 a day, in a country of 60-million people. Most victims are black. SA police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide in 2024, of which 44 were linked to farming communities. Of those, eight of the victims were farmers. The Western Cape High Court ruled that claims of white genocide were “clearly imagined and not real” in a case earlier this year, forbidding a donation to a white supremacist group on those grounds.
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marketscreener.com | Tim Cocks |Nellie Peyton
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Following is a look at some of the claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority. Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa tried to rebuff the assertions but was frequently interrupted by Trump, who repeated the claims.
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1 month ago |
marketscreener.com | Nellie Peyton |Nandita Bose
JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the White House on Wednesday on a perilous mission to persuade a hostile Donald Trump to make deals with his country rather than scold and punish it as he has done since the start of his second term.
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