Ntshavheni urges AfriForum to take up Trump's offer to give Afrikaners asylum in the US
Ntshavheni told a post-cabinet briefing earlier that she doesn’t understand why the organisations continue to peddle lies about the country to a foreign government.
FILE: Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni at a Cabinet briefing in Parliament. GCIS/Elmond Jiyane
CAPE TOWN - Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has urged lobby group AfriForum to take up President Donald Trump's offer to give Afrikaners asylum in the US.
Ntshavheni was reacting to the most recent visit to the United States by leaders of AfriForum and Solidarity, who continue to lobby the US to take action against South Africa, claiming Afrikaners are being persecuted.
Ntshavheni told a post-Cabinet briefing earlier that she doesn’t understand why the organisations continue to peddle lies about the country to a foreign government.
AfriForum and the Solidarity movement said they've informed Washington that they are considering the Trump administration’s offer for white Afrikaners to resettle in the US as refugees.
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This was one of Trump’s first executive orders when he came into office last month.
Ntshavheni said they should go ahead and take up Trump’s offer of asylum and also stop “peddling lies” about the country.
"If they don't like South Africa so much, if they don't like the efforts of government to redress the inequalities of the past, why don't they take up President Trump on his offer to resettle in the United States? I think we need to leave it there."
But Ntshavheni emphasised that it was not all Afrikaners driving the narrative about the country, but just those aligned to organisations like AfriForum.