You may have heard that Trump is cutting off all refugees from coming into the country except white South Africans who are being oppressed. Would you like to know where he’s getting his information?
U.S. President Donald Trump says that the United States government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group in that country is being violently persecuted.
Trump announced Friday on Truth Social that no U.S. government official will attend the Nov. 22-23 summit in Johannesburg “as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.” It was his latest criticism of the Black-led South African government, which has been a regular target for Trump since he returned to office.
In February, Trump issued an executive order stopping U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, citing its treatment of the Afrikaner white minority. The administration has also prioritized Afrikaners for refugee status in the U.S. and says they will be given most of the 7,500 places available this fiscal year.
The South African government — and some Afrikaners themselves — say Trump’s claims of persecution are baseless. Afrikaners are South Africans who are descended mainly from Dutch but also French and German colonial settlers who first came to the country in the 17th century.
Afrikaners were at the heart of the apartheid system of white minority rule from 1948-1994, leading to decades of hostility between them and South Africa’s Black majority. But Afrikaners are not a homogenous group, and some fought against apartheid. There are an estimated 2.7 million Afrikaners in South Africa’s population of 62 million.
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Afrikaners’ Dutch-derived language is widely spoken in South Africa and is an official language, while Afrikaners are represented in every aspect of society. Afrikaners are some of South Africa’s richest entrepreneurs, some of its most successful sports stars, and also serve in government and are largely committed to South Africa’s multiracial democracy.
Trump said on Truth Social that Afrikaners “are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated.” The president’s comments are in reference to a relatively small number of attacks on Afrikaner farmers that he and others claim are racially motivated.
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