Tom Canetti

4 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Tom Canetti

Did South Africa's White 'refugees' sell a lie to the US? US President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. A second group of White South Africans arrived in the US last week as part of a refugee programme put in place by the Trump administration, which alleges that members of the White Afrikaner minority are being racially persecuted.

4 days ago | france24.com | Tom Canetti

There are roughly 26,000 people murdered each year in South Africa. About 0.1 percent of those murders are farm attacks, which mostly claim the lives of Black people, according to national police statistics. Despite these statistics, US President Donald Trump has accused South Africa of allowing a "White genocide", claiming that Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers, are being racially persecuted.

Mar 9, 2025 | msn.com | Tom Canetti

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Mar 9, 2025 | france24.com | Tom Canetti

Lukhanyo Calata was 3 years old when his father's body was found. He says he was too young to remember his dad, and only recalls his funeral. "I remember seeing what I grew up calling 'the red box'," he said, referring to his father's coffin. "I remember seeing it being lowered into the ground, and I knew that my father was in there. What I didn't know at the time was that I would have to grow up without him," said the 43-year-old.

Mar 9, 2025 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Tom Canetti

Four decades on, still no justice for South Africa's Apartheid-era atrocitiesVictims of Apartheid-era atrocities are suing the South African government for damages over failing to prosecute those suspected of committing Apartheid-era crimes. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified some 300 suspects to be investigated for possible prosecution, but the vast majority were never pursued. Lukhanyo Calata was 3 years old when his father’s body was found.