Afrikaners Are Doing Fine, Despite What Trump Says
The Voortrekker Monument in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.
Photographer: Lourens Reyneke/Bloomberg
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Donald Trump’s assertion that White Afrikaners are being subject to a genocide in South Africa has thrust the small ethnic group onto the global stage.
A recent gathering at the colossal, granite Voortrekker Monument — that marks a 19th century journey by Afrikaners to escape British rule — on a hill in Pretoria demonstrated once again the fallacy of the US president’s claim.