FACT CHECK: South African President Claims Afrikaners Don’t Face Discrimination
CLAIM: White South Africans — members of the Afrikaner, or Boer, minority group — do not face racial discrimination or persecution by the South African government.

CLAIM: White South Africans — members of the Afrikaner, or Boer, minority group — do not face racial discrimination or persecution by the South African government.
The South African president’s office vowed Wednesday to fight the “treasonous act of misinformation,” which it blames for spreading abroad what it considers false narratives about the persecution of white Afrikaners.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa slammed Afrikaner refugees who left for the United States on Tuesday, saying that it was “cowardly” for them to leave racial discrimination and threatened expropriation.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa insists white Afrikaner refugees are not “being persecuted or treated badly.”
President Donald Trump ripped legacy and establishment media reporters on Monday, saying they refuse to cover the “genocide” taking place against farmers in South Africa.
DULLES, VIRGINIA — White South African refugees were welcomed into the United States by the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday, as President Donald Trump condemned the “genocide that’s taking place” against them.
An Episcopal group is quitting a taxpayer-funded refugee program because President Donald Trump is importing white South Africans whose lives are threatened.
Former South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor recently let a secret out: that the idea for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and accusing it of “genocide” came from anti-Israel lawyer John Dugard, via former South African intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, and that the plan was hidden from the South African public in order to avoid criticism and debate from leaders in the Jewish community.
The first Afrikaner refugees are set to arrive in the U.S. on Monday under President Donald Trump’s policy of granting them asylum due to racial discrimination and threats of expropriation by the South African government.
Far-left South African politician Julius Malema claimed the UK government blocked his entry to prevent him from appearing at a conference hosted by Cambridge University.
Rwandan officials have confirmed that the East African nation is in the “early stages” of talks with the Trump administration about accepting unwanted deportees after El Salvador recently entered into a similar agreement with the United States.
Kenya’s President William Ruto raised his arm to block a shoe that was thrown at him during a rally in the western county of Migori on Sunday, where he delivered a speech about the rising cost of living that has angered the Kenyan public.
Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa policy, told Reuters on Thursday that the administration wants the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to sign a peace treaty with each other — and then sign Ukraine-style minerals deals with the United States.
The Government of South Africa announced Wednesday that it is investigating a farmer for his social media posts that allegedly spread “racist” and “false information” that reached decision-makers in the United States.
South Africa expressed solidarity with the government of Iran after a deadly blast in a port that was reportedly caused when chemicals for ballistic missile fuels imported from China exploded.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the White House’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, took Breitbart News viewers inside both the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room with exclusive inside details of President Trump’s decision to eliminate an ISIS terrorism less than two weeks into his second term as president.
A Rwandan man living in New York has been charged for allegedly concealing his role in the 1994 genocide to gain U.S. citizenship.
President Donald Trump spoke with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday about the peace process between Russia and Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited South Africa.
Police arrested two Chinese nationals on Sunday while trespassing on the grounds of the Kangankunde Rare Earths Project in Malawi.
Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), a Mali-based terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, claims its forces killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military outposts in northeastern Benin last week.
Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau state, Nigeria, urged local “traditional rulers” to organize vigilante militias to protect Christians after a recent string of attacks, presumed to have been committed by ethnic Fulani jihadists, killed dozens and displaced thousands.
South Africa’s Department of Labour and Employment published a set of racial quotas this week that applies strict rules across 18 different industries and threatens businesses with steep fines if they do not comply.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against South Africa on a procedural dispute in the ongoing “genocide” case, granting a 6-month extension for Israel to file its responses after abuses by the South African team.
The Iran ties of MTN, the telecommunications firm chaired by South Africa’s new envoy to the U.S., Mcebisi Jonas, could have damaging reputational effects on Meta and other firms as MTN comes under scrutiny.
South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), which has been South Africa’s leading opposition party for decades, has overtaken the once-dominant African National Congress (ANC) for the first time in one of that country’s most respected polls.
Newly-appointed South African envoy to the U.S., Mcebisi Jonas, reportedly has ties to Iran through MTN, a South African telecommunications company that Jonas chairs, and that has significant investments in Iran.
South Africa appointed former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as a special envoy to the United States on Monday, ostensibly to improve frayed relations between the two countries.
Details of a massacre of dozens of Christians in the restive Middle Belt of Nigeria, believed to have occurred at the hands of genocidal Fulani jihadists, began surfacing over the weekend as the nation marks the holiest season in Christianity and the anniversary of one of the most abhorrent acts of Islamic terrorism in the nation’s modern history.
Fulani jihadists have murdered more than 60 Christians in a series of coordinated attacks across seven Christian communities in Nigeria as Holy Week begins.
The kidnapping epidemic that has plagued South Africa this decade may have hit a new criminal low when an American pastor was nabbed at gunpoint while he was preaching at a Baptist church in Motherwell, outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday repatriated three Americans accused of participating in a failed coup attempt against President Felix Tshisekedi in May 2024.
Why is Trump so focused on South Africa? I’ve been asked this dozens of times in recent weeks, and not just by South Africans: the New York Times has called me twice to ask me to explain why President Donald Trump is making South Africa a priority — and not in a good way.
Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met in Qatar with M23 insurgents last week to discuss a ceasefire.
The United Nations marked Monday, April 7 as the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which a million men, women, and children from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, along with members of the rival Hutu tribe who spoke out against the bloodbath.
Israel condemned the use of children carrying mock AK-47s in a pro-Palestinian march in Cape Town, South Africa, last week, calling it a form of “child abuse” on Monday.
The South African government said Monday that it will never give up its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — as reports emerged of children parading with mock AK-47s in anti-Israel protests in Cape Town.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Senior Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council (NSC) and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News in a lengthy exclusive interview at the White House that Trump has totally reframed how the United States approaches the elimination of jihadist terrorists.
The government of Lesotho is organizing a delegation to Washington to speak with President Donald Trump as soon as possible regarding the imposition of a 50 percent tariff on its exports, local media confirmed on Friday.
South Africa’s coalition government is near collapse, as that country struggles to deal with internal tensions and the challenge posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who broke an international taboo by criticizing the country openly.