Racist crisis: 🇿🇦S-Africans Holds Black Monday Protests Over Farm Murders

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says the protests are already causing racial divisions after some demonstrators were seen carrying the flag from the apartheid era, when South Africa was governed by its white minority and black people were not allowed to vote.

The protest comes three days after two white farmers were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison each for forcing a black man into a coffin. They intend to appeal against the sentence.

Those behind the protests have urged people to wear black. While most photos appear to show only white protestors, some show a racial mix.

The protest was organised to show outrage at the killings of farmers, especially after the death of a white farmer in Klapmuts near Stellenbosch.

Last Tuesday, Joubert Conradie, 47, was shot on his farm and died later at the Stellenbosch Mediclinic. The idea that white farmers are being targeted has been going around for some time.

The fact-checking site Africa Check found back in 2013 that white people in South Africa are less likely to be murdered than any other racial group.

UCJ, UNILORIN.