Trump’s Genocide Claim Rakes Up South Africa’s Apartheid Past

A three-hour drive southwest of Johannesburg, one of the biggest agricultural shows in the southern hemisphere is in full swing. About 100 private planes and more than a dozen helicopters land daily during the May event, where million-dollar tractors are for sale.

It’s a key date for commercial farmers, and most of them are White Afrikaners, the minority that President Donald Trump has offered refugee status because he says they’re victims of genocide and are having their land seized.

Trump’s accusation, widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory, has united South Africa’s fractious, multi-racial coalition government and drawn criticism in a country that overcame apartheid, ...