The New York Times Company issued a fact-check rebutting claims made in a YouTube video about its coverage of South Africa and an interview with President Cyril Ramaphosa. The company said U.S. tariffs finalized in July kept South Africa at 30% while other cited African countries received lower rates, and it defended its reporting that no government land seizures have occurred under a new law and that police data does not support claims of widespread targeted killings of Afrikaner farmers. It also said official land-audit data was misread and cited agricultural economists estimating that roughly half of South Africa’s farmland is under white ownership.
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