Nechama Brodie (who commonly writes for Africa Check)  has penned an extensive analysis of crime data in South Africa in response to South African pop singer and occasional ‘7de Laan’ villain, Steve Hofmeyr’s repeated claims that white people in South Africa are suffering a genocide at the hands of black compatriots.

Here’s the intro to Brodie’s piece:

South African musician Steve Hofmeyr has claimed that the number of white South Africans killed by blacks would fill a soccer stadium, that white Afrikaners are being killed “like flies” and that a white farmer is murdered every five days. But the claims are incorrect and grossly exaggerated. In fact, whites are less likely to be murdered than any other race group.

Here are Hofmeyr’s claims, as collated by Brodie:

• “Old SA averaged 7 039 murders/year from 1 950. New SA averaged 2 4206 (SAP) [South African Police Service] or 47 882 (Interpol). Sorry Columbia [sic]. We still champs.”
• “When SAP claimed 26 000 murders in 96, Interpol counted 54 000. A lot of bodies to lose in stats.”
• “There is a discrepancy of 10 000 murders per year between government and MRC figures!”
• Whites are being murdered at a rate faster than any previous period in South Africa’s history;
• A white farmer is murdered every five days;
• During apartheid, black-on-black violence was responsible for the majority of black homicides, with only a fractional percentage of black murders due to government forces;
• “Whites killed by blacks since apartheid 77.3%”. This is unclear as Hofmeyr has not indicated what factor the percentage is of, however Africa Check assumes Hofmeyr is stating 77.3% of all white homicides (since 1994) have been perpetrated by blacks;
• The number of whites killed by blacks in South Africa is equivalent to, or more than, the number of seats at Soccer City stadium, which has a maximum seating capacity of 94 736; and
• There are significant discrepancies between murders reported by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and other agencies and that these discrepancies have been used to hide or obscure the “truth” about murder in South Africa.

Click here to read the comprehensive argument for why Hofmeyr is dead wrong about dead whites.

[Source : M&G]