More than 40 prominent white South Africans, including analysts, economists, lawyers, journalists, religious leaders, and historians, have pushed back against Donald Trump’s repeated claims that they are being “slaughtered,” insisting in an open letter that they refuse to be used as “pawns in America’s culture wars.” They rejected the idea that they are victims of racial persecution or genocide, calling such claims misleading and dangerous. Their response follows Trump’s disputed assertions that white South Africans are being killed and having their land seized, and his announcement that the US would boycott the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa. France24’s Jean-Emile Jammine welcomes France24 correspondent Eunice Masson, Piet Croucamp, one of the initiators of the open letter and Ernst Roets, who has been a vocal critic of the letter, to discuss further about the issue.
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Wasn't wrong then, but it's wrong now. What yardstick should we measure by?
Are there any laws that exclude or limit white participation in the economy or prevent whites from attending schools or universities, expropriating property owned by whites, force whites to hand over part of their businesses to blacks without the black beneficiary having to invest in that business. Are there black politicians encouraging black people to kill whites by singing songs calling to do so?
Break down the murder rate according to the number of people per race to determine where the percentage of murder is the highest to get accurate figures.
Whites are victims of their own creation
Only president Trump can save South Africa
28-11-2025 Malema threatening to kill whites and boers yet again
Why is this discussion not about the consequences of apartheid
Lies. The South African government and the State Department cannot be trusted.
Imagine pushing back on a conspiracy theory you started 😂😂😂😂
I’m sure they do…. But it’s too bad that there’s been documentaries made out of it over the last three years.
America thinks that it keeps countries closer to it by introducing tariffs to the countries that they do not agree with it and most countries are running away from America for that cause. America has nothing to offer to any country in the whole world as what it owns is something that is looted from other countries as America is poor by nature.
I love South Africa….
Trump and his administration are terrorists hated by their own country…
Much respect to President Ramaphosa and all South Africa
It's a good thing that South Africa is slowly cutting ties with the USA as far as trade is concerned for EuroAsia and the rest of the civilised world.
Thanks to Trump South Africans has hope where there was none. France is a failed country and so is South Africa. The next 2 years will be interesting!
I'd like to go to such n extent to claim that the born free generation is beginning to feel further divided by these claims. Beginning to wonder the believes of my peers I schooled with. I didn't grow up in a segregated South Africa. I get nervous the Eff chanting kill the Boer but now I'm not sure what my peers believe which is scary. I family in the United States. In Georgia ND York. I'm concerned about having conversations with my peers nd I'm glad to hear there r those in the Boer community whom don't feel the same
South Africa belongs to black people,let them go back to Holland
We thank God to have people like you.The future of South Africa looks bright
Fine, don't ask for U.S. help ever!!!! GFY.
Lies and truth never mix and lies have short legs…! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tell that to all the farmers murderd and nothing stollen. What about the brutal rape and killing of children. You sit in your house with electric fence high walls and with private security. You are living in a dream world come live on a farm and work hard and then get killed and raped and tourtured. Wake up woke people . This people that has mo idea what is really happening
This idot does not know what tjey are talking about look at what they have done 114 laws stopping white people just living in south africa and yest her academics are thugs and are all idots especially this white trash woman she is pathetic and dont forget the farm murdets by the hundreds.
Look at Piet laughing last… 😅😂
These guys that sent this letter is not how all of us feel these guys are speaking because they have freinds in the ANC why are they all of a sudden waking up now because the ramaposa approuced them
Can we have a definition of genocide?
Look at eff Malema
Love the echo chamber going on here. We will see how well this ages.
Ernst Roets stated it well; you are all disconnected from reality until you become a victim, but the frog doesn''t know he is being boiled alive if the temperature is raised slowly.
What makes farm murders different is because of the impact, the brutality, the political motivation.
Sobukwe dreamt of a non racial South Africa/Azania where every person is judged by their loyalty to this country and continent and absolutely not their skin pigmentation. To reach that stage, justice must be delivered to those who suffered colonial and apartheid crimes and dispossession whilst not alienating anyone in the process.
As hierdie narre tog net kon insien dat hierdie sogenaamde “prominente Afrikaners” eintlik maar ’n handjievol irrelevante figure is.
We are South Africans, black and white,coloured and Indians, let's build South Africa together, Trump is not reliable,he just wants to instigate racial instability in South Africa, … let's unite beautiful South Africans🙏🙏🙏
And nothing else was said of it
the orange racist spreading his hatred – pity he could not be despatched like Charlie Kirk
US have ulterior motives, as per normal. They r Bullies and will throw SA under bus when their use has expired. = Beware !!
Yes there r real problems here and ANC suck badly but problems r exaggerated somewhat.
US want alignment to themselves not to BRICS countries. US are pro-zio and want ICJ case dropped. US surely r aware of petro
dollars' likely collapse. Their hegemony is threatened. SA r geographically well positioned + our resources. No US bases plse !!
O BS let any one of these elitists live my life for one day and still say what they say…. Of course they are going to say that – they are part and parcel of the elitist regime living like kings while they have no idea how life in SA is in reality beyond their high security walls and fat bank accounts.
if whites should get the hell out of S. Africa a long standing black nation, the same applies with Europe and certainly the US and well pass time to rid ourselves of this *hitty affliction who serve ZERO purpose.
no doubt leftists won't find opposition to this whatsoever as they would emphatically agree…