Trump claimed to have done ‘great’ with black voters who understood alleged white genocide in South Africa.
Presidential spokesperson Vincent Ngwenya has reacted to Trump’s latest claims of white genocide in South Africa.
Speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday evening, Trump reflected on his administration’s action against migration and their refugee programme for “persecuted South Africans”.
Although Trump did not explicitly say that only white farmers were approved through the program, his comments alluded to it when speaking of a white “genocide” in the country.
“We stopped third-world migration. We suspended all refugee resettlement except for persecuted South Africans. They’re being persecuted in South Africa.
“There’s a very horrible thing going on in South Africa. It’s a genocide. It’s a horrible thing. And we made it possible for these people to come into our country. They kill people if they’re white. If you’re a white person.”
Crime statistics and reports do not support the claim, nor has there been any credible evidence of such a genocide in the country, but Trump has often used it in his speeches since his re-election.
He claimed to have done “great with the black vote, the African-American vote”, and these voters understood “better than anybody” that “South Africa kill white farmers.”
He claimed the persecution was “terrible” and “we can’t let it go on.”
SA presidential spokesperson responds
His comments have again sparked debate and fierce reaction in South Africa, with presidential spokesperson Vincent Ngwenya suggesting the country was “rational and undeterred” by Trump’s comments.
“We know our painful past too well. As we appreciate our present moment, we are defining our future, owning our truth as we own our destiny. We are rational and undeterred.”
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