Hillside of white crosses fuels misleading story about South Africa farm killings

The Witkruis Monument is a memorial only to white people who were killed on farms over the last three decades. The memorial has driven a discredited narrative that white farmers in the majority Black country are being targeted in a widespread, race-based system of persecution. It's been seized upon by conservative commentators in the United States, amplified by South African-born Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Video shot by Alfonso Nqunjana and Nqobile Ntshangase) Read more here: https://bit.ly/443Wcnw #southafrica #news Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home