Trump's approach on SA misinformed - rabbi

The Trump administration's policy to focus on white Afrikaners by offering them refugee status in the US and now legislating the issue is not different to the ANC approach to see matters as a conflict between blacks and whites.

- Eric Mthobeli Naki

This is the view of Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, who was commenting on the recent decision by US President Donald Trump to offer refugee status to Afrikaners, alleging their rights were being violated in South Africa.

Trump also cited land expropriation, further alleging the grabbing of land belonging to Afrikaner farmers and genocide of white people.

However, this was universally rejected by South Africans, including the government and the majority of Afrikaners themselves, who dissociated themselves from the disinformation fed to Trump by organisations like AfriForum and Solidarity.

"The Trump administration's policy falls into the same trap as the ANC does - understanding South Africa as a conflict between black and white," Goldstein said.