US President Donald Trump. Picture: Jim Watson/ AFP Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya has reacted to Trump’s latest claims of white genocide in South Africa. Although Trump did not explicitly say that only white farmers were approved through the program, his comments alluded to it when speaking of a white “genocide” in the country.
“We stopped third-world migration. We suspended all refugee resettlement except for persecuted South Africans. They’re being persecuted in South Africa.
“There’s a very horrible thing going on in South Africa. It’s a genocide. It’s a horrible thing.
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And we made it possible for these people to come into our country. They kill people if they’re white. If you’re a white person.” Crime statistics and reports do not support the claim, nor has there been any credible evidence of such a genocide in the country, but Trump has often used it in his speeches since his re-election.
He claimed to have done “great with the black vote, the African-American vote”, and these voters understood “better than anybody” that “South Africa kill white farmers.” He claimed the persecution was “terrible” and “we can’t let it go on.” His comments have again sparked debate and fierce reaction in South Africa, with Magwenya suggesting the country was “rational and undeterred” by Trump’s comments. “We know our painful past too well. As we appreciate our present moment, we are defining our future, owning our truth as we own our destiny. We are rational and undeterred.” ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula was more stinging, claiming Trump’s comments were a “subtle message that black people are savages who kill with impunity.”
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