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A group of over 40 prominent white South Africans have hit back Donald Trump claims he is being “slaughtered” Told the President that they are “not pawns in America’s culture wars.”
In an open letter, The group – which included political analysts, economists, lawyers, journalists, religious figures and historians – Rejected the statement that they were victims of racial oppression and even genocideSaying that it was “not only misleading, but also dangerous.”
This comes after Trump’s repeated and disputed claims that white South Africans are being killed and their lands confiscated, with the President announcing that America will boycott the upcoming G20 summit The meeting of world leaders, which is being held in South Africa.
The US president wrote on his social media site: “African people (who are descendants of Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms illegally confiscated. As long as these human rights abuses continue, no US government official will be involved.”
Earlier this year, the Trump administration also contradicted its sweeping and aggressive anti-immigration policies. allowed a small group of Africans to enter the United States, Despite their home country denying that they were refugees.
“As South Africans and as Africans, we write this response with concern and conviction,” the Africans’ letter said. “The Trump administration’s plan to prioritize white South Africans for refugee status while drastically cutting overall refugee admissions has thrust our identity into the spotlight in ways that are deeply troubling.
“We reject the narrative that presents Africans as victims of racial oppression in post-apartheid South Africa. This framing, which is now being used to support the far-right ‘Great Replacement’ theory in the United States, is not only misleading, but also dangerous.
“It distorts the realities of South Africa, weaponizes our history, and turns a complex social context and the necessary leveling of the playing fields into a simplistic symbol of white degradation.”
Claims that violence against white farmers is widespread in South Africa have previously been denied by African-led organizations dedicated to tracking such attacks. White farmers own about 70 percent of the commercial agricultural land in the country, while minorities make up about 7 percent of the population.
However, according to the Afrikaner political group AfriForum, there were fewer than 150 strikes involving farmers during all of 2023.
In their letter the officials said they were most concerned about the “hijacking” of their ethnic identity by marginalized groups in South Africa and abroad, including through projects such as “Make Afrikaners Great Again”.
“Projects like this misrepresent our history and misuse our culture to promote exclusionary and racist ideological agendas,” the letter said.
During his second presidential term Trump has promoted a false and critical narrative about the political climate in South Africa, repeating viral misinformation and claims that white people, particularly farmers, are being killed in a genocide.
During a tense meeting in the Oval Office in May, the president ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, confronting him with unsubstantiated statistics and presenting a document that seemed to contain information and photographs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 1,000 miles away from South Africa.
The president also presented a video clip showing white crosses on a road in South Africa, which he falsely claimed were “burial sites” for white farmers and evidence of “ongoing genocide.” The cross was actually a protest organized by local protesters over the death of two farmers.
South African-born Elon Musk, Trump’s former head of DOGE, has clashed with his home nation over the launch of its Starlink satellite system, at one point claiming “I’m not allowed to work in South Africa because I’m not black“A clear reference to the country’s black empowerment laws.”
Independent African Americans have contacted the White House for comment on the letter and the President’s rhetoric.