White supremacy notion threatens South Africa’s sovereignty, president says

Ideas of white racial superiority are a threat to South Africa’s post-apartheid unity, its sovereignty and its diplomatic relations, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday, calling for global efforts to debunk false stories about white persecution.

Ramaphosa was speaking at a conference of the co-ruling African National Congress (ANC), the party of Nelson Mandela that defeated racist white minority rule in South Africa three decades ago.

“Some in our society still adhere to notions of racial superiority and seek to maintain racial privilege,” Ramaphosa said, adding that their views “conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy and white victimhood fed by false claims of the persecution of white Afrikaners (descendants of mostly Dutch settlers) in our country.”

Two weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump boycotted a Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, alleging without evidence that South Africa mistreats its white minority, and that white farmers were “being killed