A South African cardinal has denied a U.S.-backed conspiracy theory of “White genocide” against Afrikaners, as the Trump administration continues in a resettlement program many have called baldly racist.
Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Johannesburg, in comments to the Catholic news outlet Crux, called the genocide claim a “false narrative” from those who resent affirmative action policies implemented after the Apartheid era.
“Certainly, there is a Black Economic Empowerment – what’s called BEE, which would try to ensure that the situation of the past, where black people were excluded, will now be included,” Brislin said in the wide-ranging interview.
“But that doesn’t mean that the white population is now being deprived. What it does mean is that the job market has become far more competitive, because in the apartheid era, jobs were given to whites, and you didn’t really have to compete for jobs.”
The “White genocide” claim in South Africa has gained steam in recent years despite decreased or fluctuating numbers of armed attacks against farms owned by Afrikaners, who descend from the Europeans who colonized what is now South Africa beginning in the 17th century.
The violence, coupled with claims of anti-White discrimination, has been a driving force of the genocide conspiracy theory, pushed by various far-right figures in South African popular culture. Despite being repeatedly debunked, the claims have also been picked up by White House officials under President Donald...
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