Lamola calls Trump’s Afrikaner resettlement programme ‘Apartheid 2.0’
Relations between South Africa and the US have been on shaky ground amid false claims of a white genocide from the Trump administration.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola has sparked controversy by calling the Trump administration's proposed Afrikaner resettlement programme in the United States "Apartheid 2.0." During a speech at the African Diaspora Forum in Washington, DC, organized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Lamola criticized the U.S. government for attacking South Africa's democracy and freedom.
He emphasized that South Africa's constitutional democracy allows all diverse groups, including people of all races, to coexist peacefully. Lamola argued that if the U.S. truly wants to combat a fabricated "genocide against white people," it should address the issue within its own borders or accept white South Africans as refugees, but not solely target Afrikaners.
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