Trump granting asylum to Afrikaners is 'race-based policy', South African FM claims To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.
In an interview with FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said Washington's plan to take in up to 17,500 more White South Africans was "a race-based policy", dismissing the "so-called genocide" of Afrikaners as "fake news". However, Pretoria will "not interfere" with the US programme, Lamola said. He also said that South Africa stands by its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justiceover the war in Gaza, despite pressure from the Trump administration to drop the case.
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