South Africa's president calls Trump's policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners racist'

"I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed. I realised that he is looking at South Africa through a completely, sort of, foggy lens, without realising the real, real harm that apartheid did. In my view, he was just dismissive."

"I do think the Afrikaner policy is racist. It is that racist sort of demeanour that we want to be able to whittle down so that he can see the truth of the situation."

"Trump has targeted South Africa since starting his second term in office in January 2025. He has spread false allegations that the country's white minority are undergoing a genocide and that their land is being seized by the government."

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has publicly criticized Donald Trump's policy granting refugee status to white Afrikaners, calling it racist. Ramaphosa described a 2025 Oval Office meeting where Trump presented a video falsely claiming white genocide in South Africa, calling it a spectacle and ambush. He stated Trump is uninformed and views South Africa through a distorted lens, dismissing the harm of apartheid. Trump has made unfounded allegations that South Africa's white minority faces genocide and land seizure. In May 2025, the US extended refugee status to Afrikaners while reducing refugee programs for war and persecution victims. Trump also refused to attend G20 meetings in Johannesburg and banned South Africa from a US-hosted gathering in Miami.

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