South Africa, on the other hand, has three distinct white groups: the native Boer/Afrikaner population, the British-derived population (both of whom came to South Africa after 1814), and a variety of other people with pale skin who have settled in South Africa throughout the twentieth century. While Rhodesia represented only a political independence, the Boer/Afrikaner people, who are being targeted in what they call Plaasmoorde, belong to a well-established and unique ethnic and religious population that historically would never have come to exist outside of Africa. The color of their skin is incidental to their identity and intrinsic to it only in the eyes of non-Afrikaners.

In other words, the South African government is consciously targeting farmers and landowners from a particular ethnoreligious minority, not just white people writ large. Private property is a defining value of the Boer people, as is agricultural living. This means the SA government is explicitly targeting this population for expropriation and SA political groups like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are targeting them specifically for extermination because they are A) property owners B) Christian and C) descended from European colonists.