{"id":35577,"date":"2025-06-12T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=35577"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:43:35","slug":"on-those-murdered-south-african-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/on-those-murdered-south-african-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"On those murdered South African farmers &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things anyone in South Africa ever told me was a story involving five or six \u201cguys\u201d (euphemism for a black South African man), a pile of leaves under which several people could hide, a broken down car, and a family of white farmers driving down the road. The story develops with an attempt at killing the white farmers in a surprise ambush, but the farmer, being smarter than the \u201cguys,\u201d manages to run over and kill the black South Africans. This was not told as a story about whites killing black, but rather, a story about an bungled attempt of blacks killing whites. Also, and importantly, the story had happened to the story teller\u2019s close relative, just recently, very nearby where I was told it, and it was told as evidence of the dangers of a post-apartheid uprising among blacks and the overall threat to whites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auspicioussubtext.substack.com\/p\/on-those-murdered-south-african-farmers\"><strong>CONTINUE READING HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things anyone in South Africa ever told me was a story involving five or six \u201cguys\u201d (euphemism for a black South African man), a pile of leaves under which several people could hide, a broken down car, and a family of white farmers driving down the road. The story develops with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/on-those-murdered-south-african-farmers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On those murdered South African farmers &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-9fP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35587,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577\/revisions\/35587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}