Trump received South Africa leader in the Oval Room and confronted him with a very wide-right theme worldwide: the allegations that there is a genocide against the Afrikaers
This Wednesday’s meeting was tense between US President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa. CNN International even speaks in a “ambush” scenario.
Trump received South Africa leader in the Oval Room and confronted him with a very well-right theme worldwide: the allegations that there is a genocide against Afrikaners, a white population in South Africa.
The American president showed a compilation of videos that, according to the Trump administration, prove the occurrence of crimes against the white population of the African country. All this before a South African president who is black.
WATCH: shows South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a video compilation of what’s taking place against white farmers in South Africa
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“We have hundreds of people, thousands of people trying to enter our country because they feel they will be killed and their lands will be confiscated, and we have laws that have been approved who give you the right to confiscate land,” Trump told Ramaphosa in the Oval Room.
In fact, the first group of white South Africans to arrive in the US with refugee status.
The US president continued and asked the South African leader if he agreed with the language used in the videos he showed.
“We go out totally. In 1995, we adopted a document that says South Africa belongs to all who live there,” Ramaphosa said.
“But why didn’t they arrest that man? That man said ‘kill white farmers’ and then danced,” Trump came back. “You allow them to confiscate the lands, and then, when they confiscate them, kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer nothing happens to them.”
Cyril Ramaphosa tried to relieve the environment with a joke. “I regret not having a plane to offer,” joked the South African President, recalling the plane that Qatar offered to the United States, and which will be transformed to be the next Air Force One. Trump replied, with a serious look, saying he would accept a hypothetical offer.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don’t have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I’d take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
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Why are some Afrikaners fleeing to the US?
Afrikaners are the descendants of the predominantly Dutch settlers from South Africa, representing the country’s white South Africans in 2022 – a percentage that decreased by the 11% recorded in 1996, according to local census data. Apartheid’s discriminatory government, led by Afrikaners, lost power in the mid -1990s, being replaced by a multiparty democracy dominated by the African National Congress.
According to the South African Chamber of Commerce in the US (Saccusa), at least 67,000 South Africans showed interest in requesting refugee status in the US.
In the comments that justified their decision to welcome Afrikaners in the US, Trump cited allegations that “a genocide is occurring” in South Africa, adding that “white farmers are being brutally killed and their lands confiscated.”
The South African authorities vehemently denied such allegations. In a February statement, South Africa police said that “only one farmer, who happened to be white,” had been killed between October 1 and December 31, and urged the public “giving up assumptions that belong to the past, where farmers ‘murders are equal to white farmers’ murders.”
