Topic: White Farmers

President Cyril Ramaphosa denied claims of a genocide against white South African farmers during his Washington visit, attributing the violence to general criminality. While Ramaphosa defended laws allowing land expropriation for public use, critics point to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and leader Julius Malema as drivers of genocidal rhetoric. Trump utilized a television in the Oval Office to show videos of alleged executions of farmers to the South African delegation.

Two professors from San Diego State University published a chapter in a new anthology claiming that farmers markets are "insidious white spaces." They argue that the location of these markets in gentrifying neighborhoods normalizes white food consumption habits and contributes to racial exclusion.

Police in Lancashire, England, tasered 61-year-old Colin Farmer, a blind man, after mistaking his white cane for a samurai sword. The incident occurred while officers were searching for a different individual reportedly armed with a blade. The police department issued a formal apology for the traumatic mishap, which Farmer described as a nightmare.