South African guerillas have been targeting farmers for decades in an orchestrated terror campaign designed to scare them into surrendering their land. According to the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa, at least 2,295 farmers were murdered between 1990 and 2024. With only about 32,000 commercial farmers in South Africa, this indicates that farmers are being killed at an average annual rate of 211 per 100,000 farmers.

If that ratio is near correct, it means South African farmers are four times likelier to be murdered than South African police and seven times likelier than the average South African citizen. Yet South Africa’s leadership refuses to admit to the problem.

On May 14, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called a group of 59 white South Africans “cowards” after they accepted an offer from United States President Donald Trump to move to America.

President Trump’s openness to accepting Afrikaner refugees led many news analysts to expect his May 21 meeting with Ramaphosa would be a tense one. When a journalist asked Trump about white genocide in South Africa, Ramaphosa interrupted by claiming that nothing of the sort was happening. Rather than respond directly to Ramaphosa’s claim, President Trump played video footage of South African politician Julius Malema calling for a violent revolution and singing, “Kill the Boer, the farmer!”

After watching the video, Ramaphosa said, “What you saw, the speeches that were being made, one that is not government policy. Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.”

Yet official policy or not, Ramaphosa has done nothing to stop Malema from stirring up violence against white farmers. So Afrikaner farmers have every reason to accept refugee status.

“Why wouldn’t you arrest that man?” Trump asked. “That was a stadium that holds 100,000 people, and I hardly saw an empty seat.”

Ramaphosa avoided openly antagonizing Trump during their meeting, but the corporate media has since doubled down on the narrative that “white genocide” is a conspiracy theory. Under the United Nations definition, genocide requires acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” So there is room for debate as to whether South Africa’s farm murder epidemic meets this definition. But such rhetorical debates miss the point: There is an orchestrated terror campaign in South Africa designed to scare farmers into surrendering their land.

Nearly 22 percent of South Africa’s electorate voted for Malema in the country’s last presidential election. Even if the farm murder epidemic is not bad enough to constitute an official genocide, about 1 in 5 South Africans wish it were that bad. Many South African blacks want to start a Bolshevik-style revolution where they rise up and take the land from those who legally own it. They view Julius Malema as a freedom fighter against a more moderate Ramaphosa administration and are willing to kill no matter what the official policy.

South Africa may be on the cusp of the second phase of a two-phase revolution.

In 2011, British historian Stephen Ellis published a paper proving that former South African President Nelson Mandela was a member of the South African Communist Party. He also contended that Mandela’s affiliation with the Communist Party shaped the African National Congress (anc) in ways that endure to this day. He noted that the anc claimed to be in the first stage of a two-phase revolution. In this revolution, South Africa must pass through a stage of “bourgeois democracy” before becoming a truly Communist state.

Ohio Communist Party usa leader Rick Nagin noted that the South African Communist Party convinced Mandela to resist those “who demanded immediate nationalization of the mines and other industries and other measures of retribution contained in the South African Freedom Charter.” Mandela’s comrades knew that the world would not accept such drastic moves at that time, so they advocated a staged revolution.

First South Africa would “cooperate” with capitalism so the anc and the Communist Party could gain power. Then the final socialist revolution could occur later, when the world was less likely to intervene. The fact that President Ramaphosa is sitting down with President Trump and trying to make deals shows that he believes South Africa is still in the first phase of its socialist revolution. Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters disagree. “Revolution demands at some point there must be killing,” Malema said in one of the clips Trump played.

President Trump is attempting to save whites in South Africa before it’s too late. South Africa is getting more radical by the day. It’s only a matter of time until someone like Malema is in power.

The late Herbert W. Armstrong explained in The United States and Britain in Prophecy that the Anglo-Saxon peoples who settled the U.S. and Britain are the descendants of ancient Israel. The British, Dutch and French peoples who settled in South Africa were also Israelites. This means that the Bible’s end-time prophecies concerning Israel are directed at its modern descendants (principally the United States, Britain and the modern Middle Eastern nation of Israel, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and other nations).

A sobering prophecy in Ezekiel describes a time of violence and race war soon to afflict these nations.

“Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses …” (Ezekiel 7:23-24).

The word “heathen” used in this passage is not necessarily an insult. It comes from the Hebrew word gowy and merely means non-Israelite. But the “worst of the heathen” refers to the type of non-Israelites who pledge to kill men, women and children. This prophecy says that so many bloody crimes will occur that they will be like links in a chain. It describes the seizure of people’s homes and conflict between Israelites and non-Israelites: race war.

This time of violence is coming because of the abominations, or sins, of the people (verses 1-3). The Israelite people have a 4,000-year history with God, yet they have turned away from His laws and embraced wrong ideologies like communism. Therefore, God says, “I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord” (verse 27).

God’s great desire is to teach all races and nationalities the way to peace, and He has a plan to ensure that every person of every race has a vine and fig tree to sit under (Micah 4:4). If mankind would repent and obey God’s commandments, we would not have to experience such horrific crimes. But the human heart is too proud to admit that it does not know the way to peace, happiness and stability. Those who refuse to repent before the Great Tribulation will have to be humbled the hard way. God can only teach those of a poor and contrite spirit, those who tremble at His word.

To learn more about how the prophecies of Ezekiel are part of God’s master plan leading to the wonderful Kingdom of God, read Ezekiel—The End-Time Prophet, by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry.