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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

False claims Afrikaners are persecuted threaten South Africa’s sovereignty, says president

Donald Trump gestures to papers he handed to Cyril Ramaphosa.
The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, during a meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC in May. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

White supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned.

Since taking office for his second US presidential term in January, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that South Africa’s government is seizing land and encouraging violence against white farmers.

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