South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’
US president is ‘truly uninformed’ for spreading claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa tells New York TimesSouth Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist”,...
<p>US president is ‘truly uninformed’ for spreading claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa tells New York Times</p><p>South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist”, saying the US president was “truly uninformed” in a rare instance of direct criticism.</p><p>Ramaphosa told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/africa/south-africa-ramaphosa-trump-meeting-racist.html">New York Times</a> that last year’s Oval Office meeting with the US leader, when Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/trump-south-africa-president-meeting">turned down the lights</a> and played a video that he falsely claimed showed there was a “white genocide” in South Africa, was a “spectacle” and an “ambush”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/south-africa-president-cyril-ramaphosa-calls-donald-trump-policy-white-afrikaners-racist">Continue reading...</a>
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