Farm genocide just imaginary

The widely reported case of Annelle de Bruin, who plotted to kill her husband so that she could inherit R50-million and make his murder look like a farm attack in the mould of the false claims of a genocide against white farmers, is not an isolated incident.

- By Mzilikazi wa Afrika

A Sunday World investigation has established that at least eight more white Afrikaners farmers were murdered by family members or relatives who went on to pass off the crimes as farm murders in a grander scheme of a genocide against Afrikaner farmers.

The false narrative of a genocide has been used by organisations and people opposed to land reform to tarnish the image of the country.

It has gained undue traction with US President Donald Trump's administration, which has sought to punish SA by withholding aid and imposing trade tariffs.

Our investigation has unearthed the following cases:

Bartlett wrote: "The results of communism are easy to see as the president [of SA] tries to cover up the #FarmMurders. Another young farmer brutally tortured and murdered in South Africa!"

However, a police investigation later revealed that Papapavlou's wife, Simone, and her alleged lesbian lover, Patricia Ray Lee Smith, approached Simone's father, Shane Richard Dean Oliver, who was serving time at Kgosi Mampuru prison for his brother's murder, to ask him to help them kill Papapavlou after the farm manager had refused to divorce his wife.

Police established that Simone and Smith planned Papapavlou's murder via WhatsApp. The two women and the alleged middleman, Phillip Manchidi, were arrested.