CNN international correspondent Larry Madowo has revealed he received racist feedback after his commentary on the White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa.
Taking to social media on Thursday afternoon, hours after covering the story, Larry revealed that he had received several racist reactions, pinpointing one particular one whose screenshot he shared.
"I got some racist reactions to my reporting on the Trump-Ramaphosa meeting, but this was my favourite... Lots of big words when he could have just called me the n-word and kept it moving," he quipped.
In the screenshot he shared, the disgruntled complainant privately messaged the journalist, calling him several names, including black supremacist, extreme racist, a hoodrat and several other unprintable names who hated white people and "his country".
He further launched his attack on President Ramaphosa, calling him similar names and a facilitator of the white people's massacre in his country.
"There is and has been a severe genocide of our white brothers and white sisters over in South Africa that are being brutally, violently, savagely, raped, tortured and brutally murdered by extreme racists, black supremacist rabid animals over in South Africa," the text said.
This final assertion was in great contrast with Madowo's comments, which discredited President Trump's claims that farmers in South Africa were facing racism in the country.
According to him, the comprehensive research by CNN, its competitors and other independent organisations had debunked several claims that Trump attacked the made during the interaction.
During the over one-hour interaction between the two Presidents, Trump produced video "evidence" of white genocide in South Africa, something that Madowo stated could not be further from the truth.
"Violent crime is a real issue in South Africa. Between April and December 2024, there were almost 20,000 murders in South Africa. What percentage of those murders were actual farm murders was 0.2 per cent, so across the board, there were only 36 farm murders in South Africa," Larry reported on Thursday morning.
"Everyone is a tragedy, but out of those 36, only seven were farmers. Farmers tend to be white in South Africa, and black people tend to be black on these farms."
The journalist also highlighted that the ambush-like interaction between the two Presidents might have emboldened a white-supremacist group, Afriforum, whose views were echoed almost word for word by President Trump.
Over a week ago, Trump received the first group of 59 white South Africans, granting them refugee status, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a "genocide".
Since the meeting, South Africans and other allies of President Ramaphosa have praised him for keeping his calm during the interaction and not raising his voice.
