“There are many people who are very concerned about South Africa (…) There are many people who feel persisted,” said the American president. The South African president reminded his host that various members of his delegation are Afrikáners, including the Minister of Agriculture.
The US President, Donald Trumpis about to Anger from the end of February in the Oval Office of the White House with the Ukrainian presidentVolodimir Zensky, but this time with the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
In the presence of Ramaphosa, Trump said that in South Africa there is ‘a genocide’ against white farmers and there, surrounded by journalists, has shown him a video that probably supported his words.
Moreover, the Tycoon has emphasized that he expects an “explanation” “persecution” and “genocide” to which the Afrikáner minority After Washington granted the status of refugees to different families.
“There are many people who are very concerned about South Africa (…) There are many people who feel persisted,” Trump said from the Oval Office in a tense meeting with Ramaphosa, who reminded his host that various members of his delegation are Afrikáners, including the Minister of Agriculture, agriculture, John Henry Steenhuisen.
A video and press clippings
“If there had been a genocide of Afical Farmers, I can bet that these gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture,” said the President of South Africa who reacted Trump by showing him a video and press clippings about this alleged persecution.
“I would like to see where that is because I hadn’t seen it”Said Ramaphosa, who explained that there are more black people than white who die because of the crime that exists in South Africa for a Trump that has insisted that in the case of Afrikáner -Boeren they are not black “.
The video, almost five minuteswhich was reproduced during the meeting before the meeting Surprise of the South African delegationwas uploaded to the X White House account. In addition to this alleged persecution, the opposition politician Julius Malema seems to sing a song that refers to Afrikáners.
Trump has influenced that there are “thousands of stories about” about this alleged persecution, which has also been defended Elon MuskPresent in the Oval Office.
For his part, Ramaphosa has defended the agricultural policy that her government promoted at the beginning of the year and reminded it that it is only looking for Distribute the earth After the inherited injustices of the ‘Apartheid’ regime.
During the Racist regime of ‘Apartheid’ (1948-1991)The Black South Africans were stripped by the power of their country, which were delivered to the white minority that, Three decades later, it will continue to have more than 90 % of the land ownership Despite the representation of 20 % of the population.
Source: EITB
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