Lesley Wroughton

2 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Lesley Wroughton |Tabelo Timse

In SA, Trump’s false claims spark a renewed racial reckoning ‘Genocide’ claims forced race to the forefront of national conversation 23 May 2025 - 08:19 By Lesley Wroughton and Tabelo Timse False claims made by US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday that SA’s black majority is trying to wipe out white Afrikaners have roiled the country, forcing race to the forefront of a national conversation in a way rarely seen since the end of apartheid...

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lesley Wroughton

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Lesley Wroughton |Tabelo Timse

In South Africa, Trump’s false claims spark a renewed racial reckoning (washingtonpost.com) In South Africa, Trump’s false claims spark a renewed racial reckoning By Lesley Wroughton; Tabelo Timse 2025052217443300 CAPE TOWN, South Africa — False claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday that South Africa's Black majority is trying to wipe out White Afrikaners have roiled this country — forcing race to the forefront of a national conversation in a way rarely...

2 weeks ago | postguam.com | Cleve R. Wootson Jr. |Matt Viser |Lesley Wroughton

President Donald Trump pressed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to protect white Afrikaner farmers from violent attacks in an extraordinary Oval Office confrontation on Wednesday, where others stepped in to remind Trump of the nation's long-standing violence affecting both white and Black people. Trump amplified false claims that white Afrikaners have been victims of genocide, showing video of crosses and earthen mounds he said represented more than 1,000 graves of murdered farmers.

2 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Cleve R. Wootson Jr. |Matt Viser |Lesley Wroughton

Trump confronts Ramaphosa over violence against white farmers Trump made no mention of South Africa's long-standing epidemic of violence against both white and black people, nor its violent and discriminatory history of white rule 21 May 2025 - 21:35 By Cleve R.