DIRCO rebukes Trump’s claims of Afrikaner persecution ahead of G20 summit

By Marcus Moloko

South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has rebuked recent comments made by U.S President Donald Trump on Truth Social, in which he accused the country of persecuting Afrikaners, while boycotting the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg.

Trump claimed Afrikaners – whom he described as “white descendants of European settlers” are being killed and slaughtered, and that their farms are being illegally confiscated.

He declared that no U.S. government official will attend as long as the perceived human rights abuse continued while referring to South African’s hosting the G20 as a disgrace.

DIRCO responded swiftly, stating that Trump’s characterization of Afrikaners as an exclusively white group is “ahistorical” and that his claims of persecution are “not substantiated by fact.”

The department emphasized that