The footage played at the meeting showed left-wing populist leader Julius Malema calling for the murder of members of South Africa’s 4.5 million-strong white community, which comprises about 7.3% of the population, and a roadside memorial ostensibly for dozens of murdered white farmers.
“Revolution demands at some point there must be killing,” Malema said in one clip, with several others showing the Economic Freedom Fighters leader dancing in packed stadiums while singing, “kill the Boer, the farmer!”
Several neighbors of mine emigrated to the US several years ago. When this became a covered issue in the media last year, they told me that since Nelson Mandela died in 2013, life for the White minority became increasingly difficult, which prompted them to move to the US in 2017.
While they were in the financial industry in Jo’burg, they saw the reality around them.
The US President has fast-tracked refugee status for the country’s Afrikaner minority, with an initial group of more than four dozen arriving this month, and told Ramaphosa that a friend of his from South Africa said “they take your land and they kill you” if you’re white.
“I will say, apartheid, terrible,” said Trump. “That was the biggest story, that was reported all the time. This is sort of the opposite of apartheid. What’s happening now is never reported.”
“What you saw, the speeches that were being made, one that is not government policy,” Ramaphosa insisted.
“Why wouldn’t you arrest that man?” Trump asked rhetorically. “That was a stadium that holds 100,000 people, and I hardly saw an empty seat.”
As Ramaphosa left the White House after about three hours, he told reporters the meeting “went very well.”
Let’s see if Ramaphosa takes back to South Africa the message Trump gave him to stop the reverse apartheid, which rages across South Africa.
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