The court says ‘non -real’ claims

A South African court has dismissed the claims of a white genocide in the country as “clearly imagined” and “not real”, since it blocked the donation of a rich benefactor to a racist right -wing group.

The Superior Court recently set aside a donation of $ 2.1 million (£ 1.7 million) that Grantland Michael Bray wanted to make the Benrelegioen white supremacist group, which said he was invalid, vague and “contrary to public policy.”

According to reports, Bray wanted to read the amount to the group to help “promote their messages of racial hate and separation.”

The ruling occurs when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his advisor Elon Musk accuse the government of South Africa of mistreating the white minority of the country.

Trump referred to the “large -scale murder of farmers” in South Africa, while Musk has condemned what they said they were “racist property laws” and previously called the “whites genocide.”

Despite promising that taking an immigration measurement, Trump has said that White South African farmers could be established in the United States as refugees due to the persecution they said they faced.

Musk was born and grew in South Africa before moving to the United States.

The judicial action was presented by Mr. Gray’s four brothers, who are also a trust and beneficiaries of the family Trust.

In him, they affirmed that his brother had “obsessed with the idea of ​​an imminent genocide of whites in South Africa” ​​in the last 10 years of his life.

He died in March 2022.

Gray, who was paralyzed after an accident at the age of 26 while performing military service, had also become paranoid since he believed that the alleged “genocide” would happen soon.

“That idea was further driven by its racism already present and the online content to which it was exposed,” Judge Rosheni Allie summed up in a February 15 ruling that has just come to light.

Gray met for the first time with members of Boerelegioen in 2020 and allegedly gave them about $ 326,000 (£ 258,000) in gold coins to help finance their cause and obtain membership of the racist group.

The Boerelegioen describes itself as a “civil defense movement that allows citizens to resist the promised slaughter of whites in RSA (Republic of South Africa), as well as the theft of their property.”

Subsequently, it made the organization a beneficiary of its heritage, specifying that a part of the money is destined to the various training programs directed by the group.

But because there were three entities that bore the name of Boerelegioen, the court discovered that Gray’s legacy was “vagus with respect to which entity was the expected beneficiary” of his will.

“The only expression of the intention (of Mr. Gray) that is evident is the intention that the funds are used for ‘training’, as well as (their) own statements that I wanted the used funds to benefit an organization that he considered one that will exterminate all black people in South Africa ‘and will be used to defend or remove a white genocide, which is clearly imagined and not real, “Judge Allie said.

On the issue of public policy, Mr. Gray’s brothers argued that Boerelegioen wanted to use funds for “more … their messages of racial hate and separation.”

They also argued that the group “cannot be able to undermine the spirit, meaning and objects of the declaration of rights with impunity and train a private army with the express purposes of returning to apartheid.”

The Declaration of Rights is a chapter in the Constitution of South Africa that protects civil rights. It entered into force after the end of the ruler of white minority in 1994.

Boerelegioen denied these accusations, claiming that they simply provided security and training services to the communities and did not exclude anyone on the basis or race, gender or religion.

Judge Allie failed in favor of the brothers and ordered Boerelegioen to pay the costs in the judicial case.

Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order that frozen financial aid to the country on a new law that allowed land seizures by the South African government under certain circumstances.

The state of South African White farmers has long been a scream of meeting to the right and the extreme right of American politics.

But despite the numerous statements in the past of the systematic orientation of the country Afrikaner minority group of the country, local crime statistics figures paint a different image.

South Africa does not publish crime figures based on the breed, but the latest figures revealed that 6,953 people were killed in the country between October and December 2024.

Of these, 12 were killed in agricultural attacks. Of the 12, one was a farmer, while five were inhabitants of the farm and four employees, who would probably have been black.

In contrast, 961 women were killed along with 273 children.