South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a speech on August 29 in which he praised Zimbabwe’s bloody policy of “land reform,” which targeted white farmers for murder, displaced one million black farm workers, and led to a famine that starved millions more.

Ramaphosa, who has denied claims of a “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa, made his remarks at the opening of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show.

The remarks were subsequently published on the website of the South African Presidency, and on YouTube:

On independence in 1980, the new democratic government of Zimbabwe had to take on the momentous task of dismantling colonial-era patterns of land ownership.

Most of the country’s commercially productive land and large-scale commercial farms were owned by whites. The black maj

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