‘Conservative organisations’ misrepresentation of SA annoying’

The Chairperson of the Foundations Preparatory Committee Nkosinathi Biko says it is annoying to misrepresent the situation in South Africa for the popular benefit of what he says is a handful of conservative organisations.

Biko, who sits on the preparatory committee for the upcoming national dialogue, was weighing in on the 49 Afrikaners who have emigrated to the United States.

US President Donald Trump said earlier this year that Afrikaners were being racially persecuted in South Africa.

The South African government said last week that it was regrettable that the resettlement under the guise of being “refugees” was politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy.

Biko says the upcoming national dialogue will tackle the misrepresentation that the country has been subjected to over the last few months.

“I don’t think we should mistake the national dialogue to be a space that is going to be about creating a Kumbaya. It’s going to have to handle very difficult conversations including the inequities that we see in our country and the narratives that go with them.”

“And I think it’s clear to many South Africans and many in fact who are Afrikaners that it is annoying to misrepresent the situation in South Africa.”