Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa

Source: LAist/NPR

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —President Donald Trump has announced that no U.S. officials will attend the G20 Summit hosted by South Africa — the current rotating chair of the group of major world economies — in Johannesburg later this month, citing "human rights" concerns. Vice President JD Vance had been due to attend in Trump's place. "It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa. Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated," Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend.

He previously said South Africa should be kicked out of "the gs" altogether. Trump has been relentlessly critical of South Africa since his return to office. He ambushed the country's president Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House visit in May falsely accusing his government of seizing white-owned land; cut aid to South Africa; his administration expelled the South African ambassador to Washington; slapped the country with 30 percent tariffs; repeated debunked far-right claims about a white genocide - and as a result prioritized Afrikaners for fast-track refugee status in the U.S. (while stopping refugee admissions from most other countries).

The South African government has repeatedly tried to correct the White House, providing statistics that disprove these claims – for example the fact that Black people are by far the worst affected by violent crime and that whites still own the majority of commercial farmland – to no avail.

Now, some white Afrikaners themselves, as well as Afrikaans groups, are calling out what they say are the U.S. administration's "lies" and "falsehoods" in their name. "We reject the narrative that casts Afrikaners as victims of racial persecution in post-apartheid South Africa," a group of over 40 prominent Afrikaners said in an open letter last month. "We are not pawns in America's culture wars." The group included writers, journalists, musicians, university lecturers and Christian clergy.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/prominent-afrikaners-refuse-to-be-pawns-and-hit-back-at-trump-s-claims-about-south-africa/ar-AA1Qbv1k

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Link to LETTER - Not in My Name


EVERYTHING this administration does has an overlay of racism/white supremacy, and like their faux "concern" about antisemitism, they are engaged in more faux narratives about South Africans.

The letter/statement/petition at the link is a good read.