Cape Town — Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe has condemned AfriForum for appealing to the United States and former President Donald Trump to intervene in South African affairs and provide humanitarian aid for Afrikaner development.
AfriForum has come under public scrutiny following its visit to the US to meet with members of Donald Trump’s administration to discuss the human rights violations against Afrikaners.
This led to President Cyril Ramaphosa accusing AfriForum of sowing divisions among South Africans, and the ANC declared their actions as unpatriotic.
Speaking during a plenary session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, Mantashe said AfriForum’s actions showed that they wanted a return to the days of Apartheid in South Africa.
“AfriForum is an anti-transformation programme, driven by the hope that Apartheid will come back. It’s a mirage, and that mirage must be confronted by all South Africans, irrespective of colour, because it is going to hurt the country before we recover,” Mantashe said.
“It is not an attack on the ANC or Ramaphosa as they announced; it is an attack on the country, and everybody must be concerned; we must mobilise our people to confront right-wing mobilisation that is emerging in the country,” he said.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
