Marie von Tonder is still haunted by a crime that took place more than two decades ago.

An armed group came to her home in the far north of Limpopo province in 2002. She managed to shoot and kill one of them. Her family survived the ordeal, and she runs their 1,200 hectare farm with her two sons.

Marie says she still does not sleep well and worries about attacks on white farmers across South Africa . “To lose one farmer for a farm murder, it’s sad,” she tells me over lunch with her son, Gideon. “To lose a thousand farmers that’s been killed, I think that’s a genocide.” She references the Witkrius Monument near Limpopo’s capital, Polokwane, where more than 3,000 white crosses mark the deaths of white farmers since 1994.

This year, a South African court said that claims of a white genoc

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