Pressure Is Mounting On Ramaphosa To Act Against Afriforum

Pressure is mounting on President Cyril Ramaphosa to act against lobby group Afriforums visits to the US. Earlier this week, Afriforum, Solidarity and the Solidarity Movement visited Trumps Administration once again after it was announced that the US would cut funding for USAID and HIV organisations in South Africa and that the administration would promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees.

Several political parties in South Africa have called for the Afrikaner lobby group to face legal action for what they call treasonous actions.

Following the signing of the Expropriation ACT, South Africa got the short end of the stick with the Trump Administration cutting USAID and HIV funding . Although a number of dynamics come into play with the USs latest move, some feel Afriforum and Solidarity have not helped the situation with their most recent visit to the US earlier this week.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised the move.

"We need to be sending a clear message to them that as far as we are concerned as proud South Africans, we prefer that we should all stay here and solve our problems. And already what they are doing is sowing divisions in our nation and this is not a nation-building process of running around the world to try and have your problems solved, youre just sowing divisions because now the whole of South Africans then Start looking at others negatively. I dont think its the right way of handling our problems."