“White genocide in South Africa ‘is a myth’ high court rules

– a week after Trump cuts all aid to the country due to ‘human rights violations’, echoing claims by Elon Musk, who was born there

By MIRIAM KUEPPER

Published: 10:24 BST, 25 February 2025 | Updated: 11:59 BST, 25 February 2025

White genocide in South Africa ‘is clearly imagined and not real’, the country’s high court has ruled.

The ruling came as part of a judgement to declare a bequest made in the will of a white South African man called Grantland Michael Bray to far-right organisation Boerelegioen (BL) invalid.

Bray, who died in 2022, had set aside £1.7million (R40m) in his will to fund training programmes by the BL, which he believed would ‘exterminate every black person in South Africa’.

The BL describes itself as ‘a civil defence movement that enables citizens to resist the promised slaughter of whites’.

Bray became paranoid about violent attacks on the white minority after BL engaged in ‘fearmongering’ to convince people that murders of white farmers signified the start of a white genocide, Judge Rosheni Allie said in court.

A white genocide threat ‘is clearly imagined and not real’, according to the judgement seen by the Times [https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/white-genocide-is-a-myth-south-african-court-rules-rnr702zjg].

The ruling, handed down on February 15, came just a week after US President Donald Trump cut all aid to South Africa due to alleged human rights violations against the white minority.

Trump’s claims echo those of his tech billionaire advisor Elon Musk, who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and said in 2023 that authorities in the capital city were anti-white.

Musk even claimed that officials encouraged the killing of white people, who represent seven per cent of the population in South Africa.

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But crime statistics don’t support these claims, as the most recent data, from 2023, revealed that 49 farmers or their families were killed, which makes up just 0.18 per cent of the 27,000 murders recorded in the South Africa during that period.

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Bray, who willed £1.7million to BL to fight what he perceived to be white genocide, was a racist with a personality disorder and believed a white genocide was imminent, his sister Madeleine Gerntholtz reportedly said.

He had been paralysed at 26 years old after an accident during his compulsory military service under the apartheid government.

His carers warned Bray that he was being manipulated by senior BL figures who visited him in 2020 and 2021 to give him a BL flag and beret.

Bray allegedly believed he was paying a monthly membership fee to BL and was a member, but his siblings said this wasn’t true as the organisation’s manifesto states that only those of ‘Boer’ blood could be members.

His bequest to BL was ruled invalid as the group’s manifesto, videos and other materials glorified the apartheid government, which goes against South Africa’s constitution, according to the judge.

Bray also wanted to use the money to fund paramilitary and vigilante training programmes, which is illegal.

Judge Allie further said that Bray’s will was vague about which specific BL organisation he wanted to support with the £1.7million.

Boerelegioen RSA (Pty) Ltd and the Boerelegioen NPC said after the application to have Bray’s donation in the will declared invalid that even if the donor wanted his money to be used to kill black people, they had no ambition to do so.

The money earmarked to be donated to BL will now instead by distributed through intestate succession.

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• Full report “White genocide in South Africa ‘is a myth’ high court rules” on the Daily Mail UK website (last checked in April 2025)

• See also article “‘White supremacists in suits and ties’…” by The Guardian

• See also opinion piece “We Afrikaners are once again skunks” by Max Du Preez in the Daily Maverick