# The Silent Genocide of White People in South Africa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 27, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silent-genocide-of-white-people-in-south-africa/639037 "2012-10-27T11:52:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silent-genocide-of-white-people-in-south-africa/639037/21 "2012-10-27T16:54:48Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > I was wondering this myself, but whites make up about 9.2% of the population. So, without doing the math, it doesn’t seem that whites are being targeted at all that high a rate. Well, doing _some_ of the math, if whites are 9.2% of the population, and 3500 whites were murdered as part of an overall murder total of 15940, that means (speaking very roughly) that 9.2% of the population make up nearly 22% of the murder victims. Big assumption that the various numbers are correct, of course. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “genocide”, though. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silent-genocide-of-white-people-in-south-africa/639037/22 "2012-10-27T17:39:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, doing _some_ of the math, if whites are 9.2% of the population, and 3500 whites were murdered as part of an overall murder total of 15940, that means (speaking very roughly) that 9.2% of the population make up nearly 22% of the murder victims. > > Big assumption that the various numbers are correct, of course. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “genocide”, though. 15940 total was last year; 3500 whites were since 1991. Average is about 175 per year or a hair over one percent of the total. > [@DrFidelius](#): > > UNODC list of intentional murders ([List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate)) shows South Africa to have had 15,940 murders in the last year. If there were only 3500 killings of white farmers since the end of Apartheid, it seems as if being a white farmer is probably the safest class of persons in the country. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silent-genocide-of-white-people-in-south-africa/639037/23 "2012-10-27T17:43:11Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, doing _some_ of the math, if whites are 9.2% of the population, and 3500 whites were murdered as part of an overall murder total of 15940, that means (speaking very roughly) that 9.2% of the population make up nearly 22% of the murder victims. > > Big assumption that the various numbers are correct, of course. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “genocide”, though. 15940 murders last year. 3500 whites murdered since the end of apartheid. Apples and oranges. ETA: Yeah, ninja’d. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silent-genocide-of-white-people-in-south-africa/639037/24 "2012-10-27T17:50:46Z")
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