WATCH | Ramaphosa accuses AfriForum, Solidarity of ‘sowing divisions’ among South Africans

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Cape Town — President Cyril Ramaphosa has hit back at AfriForum and Solidarity for ‘sowing divisions in South Africa’ following their recent meeting with Donald Trump’s administration in the USA.

AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel and Solidarity’s Flip Buys were in the US and met with members of Trump’s administration to advocate for the interests of Afrikaners in South Africa.

The group presented a memorandum to showcase alleged human rights violations against Afrikaners, as well as the African National Congress’s (ANC) poor governance.

In response to the surprise meeting, Ramaphosa called out AfriForum and Solidarity for looking abroad to fix issues that can and should be resolved in South Africa. He accused the two of ‘sowing divisions’, Newzroom Afrika reported.

“I’ve heard that AfriForum and Solidarity have met with representatives of the US government, but they are doing what we as South African should not do,” he said after the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla.

“We should stop running to other countries. We should discuss our problems here and find solutions. That, in many ways,  confirms our sovereignty and our standing as a free and independent nation,” he added. 

He said it was important for all South Africans to stay here and to work together to solve problems and to grow as a nation.

Asked whether action should be taken against the groups, Ramaphosa acknowledged growing calls for accountability.

“There are people who are saying something needs to be done to them, and I would say we need to be sending a clear message to them that as far as we are concerned, as proud South Africans, we prefer that all stay here and solve our problems,” he said.

“What they’re doing is spawned divisions in our nation, and that is not a nation-building process of running around the world to try and have your problems solved, you are just sowing divisions,” he said.

“Now, a number of South Africans start looking at others negatively and I don’t think that is the right way to handle our problems,: he added.

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