JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s top police investigative unit is investigating complaints of high treason against Afrikaner organizations that recently met with officials from President Donald Trump’s administration in Washington.
The White House visit included high-level talks, according to three groups lobbying for the rights of white Afrikaners.
The Solidarity Movement is the largest Afrikaner movement in South Africa, with some 600,000 members. Among its many initiatives are the Solidarity trade union and the civil rights group AfriForum.
Representatives of the three groups “met with senior representatives of the Trump administration,” on Feb. 25, according to a post on social media platform X by AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel. The delegation presented a memorandum detailing alleged persecution by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration….