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For comparison, over a period of 86 years in the US, 4,743 people were lynched (1,297 white, 3,446 black). About 55 per year.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynching...

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These lynchings were really grisly. People would gather around, they would carve up the body and take organs as trinkets. There were also mass attacks on black people, like in Tuscon.

Here in South Africa we do have lots of violent killings, but white farmers aren't killed at a greater than national average level. In fact the highest murder rate is among cape coloureds in the cape flats.

This is clearly false, the above comment or clearly demonstrated a far above average death rate of vulnerable minorities in SA

So if I'm getting it correctly, that's roughly 0.44 deaths per 1M capita per year in the US, and 1.1 comparable deaths per 1M capita per year in South Africa? Well, then it seems at least comparable to US lynchings, if not slightly higher. (Your link sadly doesn't provide distribution in time so I have to calculate with average population in that period.)

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