JOHANNESBURG—President Donald Trump’s decision to allow white Afrikaners to seek asylum in the United States from state-sponsored “racial discrimination,” “hateful rhetoric,” and “disproportionate violence” in South Africa has not gone down well in some quarters.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as “cowards,” according to the BBC.
On May 22, during a meeting with Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, Trump presented what he said was evidence of this.
Showing printouts of news articles and footage of South African extremists calling for white farmers to be killed, Trump repeated the allegation that the South African government is confiscating white-owned land….