EXCLUSIVE: ‘Absolute Hate’ Farm Attack Victim Recounts Experience With Anti-White Ravagers

A South African woman and her husband were attacked in a hate-fueled home invasion; she spoke exclusively to the Daily Caller about the harrowing experience and the steps the Trump administration is taking to end the violence.

The Afrikaner, Amanda Platt, shared her story with the Daily Caller Thursday, claiming that her attackers were granted “permission” by her government through the incitement of violence towards the country’s white minority. (WATCH: White Farm Attack Survivor Retells Harrowing Story, Says South Africa Gave Attackers ‘Permission’)

In August 2023, Amanda and her husband, Tim, were asleep when several men broke into their home. Amanda immediately knew that if the attackers succeeded in capturing her, she could be tortured for hours, maybe days, before being left for dead on the land where her ancestors have lived since the 1600s.

“So you either got to be brave or die at the hands of these brutal, you know, be brutally murdered. That’s just what it is,” Amanda told the Caller Thursday, “and for us it’s like normal.”

Amanda and Tim fought to defend their home for an hour before they were finally overwhelmed as the first intruder made it through the door, crowbar in hand.

“I looked face-to-face with an assailant, and I will never, ever forget that look. When he looked at me with absolute hate and animosity, and I said to him, ‘Just go.’ And he said to me, ‘Kill the Boer,’” Amanda recalled. “And that’s when he struck me.”

Despite being struck repeatedly with a crowbar and stabbed with a spear, the Platts continued fighting. With help from local farmers, they survived, and the assailants were eventually captured. Thousands of white South Africans, however, weren’t as lucky.

“I am here to be a voice for those 3,000 white crosses that never, ever had a voice but could never, ever tell their story, that could never, ever say how brutally they were killed,” Amanda said tearfully.

She was referring to a campaign by Afrikaner rights group Lex Libertas to place a cross for each farm attack death in front of the Capitol building.

Amanda told the Caller that the attackers who targeted her, as well as those represented by each cross, were granted “permission” by the South African government, adding that “they are told to do it.”

“And it’s been allowed. It’s been condoned by a government,” Amanda added. “There’s going to be no repercussions for it.”

Amanda pointed to the “Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer” chant, an apartheid-era liberation struggle song that South African courts have deemed protected free speech. Her attacker quoted the chant moments before striking her in the face with a crowbar.

The phrase, which is often chanted at universities and packed sports arenas by political figures such as Julius Malema, a member of the country’s National Assembly and head of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, has become more than just rhetoric, Amanda shared.

“It’s not a metaphor,” she added. (RELATED: Arrests Made In Brutal Farm Torture As South Africans Plan 3,000-Cross White House Vigil)

In May 2025, President Donald Trump used a state visit by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to convey that a genocide was happening in South Africa. Trump also showed videos of Malema sharing radicalizing rhetoric on race and performing the chant as tens of thousands joined in and danced.

“When they take the land they kill the white farmer,” Trump told Ramaphosa, “and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them.”

Trump has also spent his presidency pushing against the South African government, through actions such as the creation of a pipeline for refugees from the country to the U.S. and cutting financial aid to the state.

Last week, Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese exclusively reported that the State Department had expanded its efforts to combat farm attacks by restricting the visas of foreign nationals responsible for, or complicit in, uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority groups in the country.

“The United States will not allow such behavior to go unchecked. These actions directly undermine peace, economic stability, and the rule of law, and they are incompatible with the pillars of America’s foreign policy,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Caller in a statement. “We once again strongly urge the South African government to quickly address these egregious actions.”

Amanda described the visa restrictions and other actions taken by the Trump administration, including the Caller-reported ending of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, as “wonderful.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Boer Leaders Say South Africa Will Not Learn From Trump’s Cutting Of AIDS Funding)

As the chant, violence, race-based laws and land seizures continue, Martin van Staden, editor of the Race Law Index, described the visa restrictions as a meaningful step in the right direction during a Friday briefing hosted by Lex Libertas.

At the briefing, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Samuel Samson told attendees that “what’s happening to you is a definitive fact.”

Samson said the Afrikaner problem is an American problem because of South Africa’s regional importance to U.S. interests, its ties with China and its position as the “tip of the spear” of the radicalizing left-wing policies the administration is challenging at home. He warned that the U.S. could mirror South Africa if nothing changed. He

Samson said the administration is not asking much of Ramaphosa to return to the status quo, as much of what Trump wants from the nation can be done with a pen, including condemning phrases such as “Kill the Boer.”

“Just admit that this is a problem; inciting violence is a problem; and then we’re good,” the deputy assistant secretary said, adding that “to this day, the South African government refuses to answer the most basic tasks.”

Although the State Department does not disclose specifics about who the visa bans will restrict, Samson said, “you could probably guess pretty well based on the qualifications.” (RELATED: Investigating Farm Killings In South Africa — What We Saw)

The Secretary emphasized that visa restrictions are not the end of the line, as discussions remain ongoing.