Kuala Lampur, May 25 -- If Donald Trump wants to play the saviour of civilisation, he'd do well to start with a globe, a highlighter, and a mirror. The former president - whose flair for fire-starting tweets outpaces his appetite for facts - recently blew the dog whistle loud enough to wake apartheid's ghost, claiming a "white genocide" is unfolding in South Africa. And just like that, a discredited conspiracy theory got a second life in the limelight.

Let's unpack that.

Between January and March 2025, six farm murders were recorded in South Africa. Five of those victims were Black, one was white. In the previous quarter, out of 12 farm murders, only one victim was white. These aren't isolated numbers. Year after year, the data shows a ...