President Donald Trump is boycotting the G20 Summit hosted by South Africa, accusing the Black-majority rule nation of committing “white genocide.”
But several white South Africans are calling Trump out to be a liar, referring to his allegations in an open letter as “misleading” and “dangerous.”
“We reject the narrative that casts Afrikaners as victims of racial persecution in post-apartheid South Africa,” stated the open letter signed by 40 Afrikaners, including journalists, professors, religious leaders and business owners, who are the white descendants of the mostly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 1650s and established the apartheid system in 1948 before it was abolished in 1994.
“We are not pawns in America’s culture wars. We are South Africans, part of a diverse, evolving nation still grappling with its past and striving toward a more just future.”
Also rejecting Trump’s allegations as lies is the African National Congress, the majority-Black political party that has governed South Africa since 1994 after apartheid was abolished.
“This is a blatant lie. There is no racial discrimination happening in South Africa,” said ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula.
“South Africa’s laws seek to redress imbalances created by apartheid, which was declared by the UN as a crime against humanity, particularly against Black people. We don’t take kindly to imperialist flirtations.”
ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said, “The ANC will not allow such divisive and regressive...
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