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A delegation from Afriforum, Solidariteit, and the Solidarity Movement met with representatives of the Trump administration in Washington.
Political analyst Dr Dale McKinley says AfriForum and Solidarity group need to return to South Africa and engage with relevant stakeholders about their grievances.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the groups are sowing divisions in the country by advocating that US President Donald Trump’s administration intervene in government policy.
This after a delegation of the Afrikaner interest group met with senior representatives of the US Executive with the aim of having the US put pressure on the ANC to change its policies.
McKinley has slammed the two groups’ meeting with members of the Trump’s administration in the US.
“AfriForum and Solidarity have representatives. They have spaces that they can do that in, in Parliament, in the public sector here within the public spaces. Going to the White House and then saying we’re going to have private conversations is just nonsensical. And I think AfriForum and Solidarity need to be very careful. They need to be very careful about what they’re doing and understand that they’re doing these things in a context in which it’s fine to have different perspectives. But when you stoke racial tensions and when you make claims that are clearly factually false which have been proven to do so, then you’re stepping on very, very kind of shaky ground,” says McKinley.
