# South African FM calls Trump’s Afrikaner asylum plan ‘race-based policy’

https://mins.news/en/item/76894

- France 24, 2026-09-28 10:38 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20260928-trump-granting-asylum-to-afrikaners-is-race-based-policy-south-african-fm-claims

> South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola told FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York that Washington’s plan to admit up to 17,500 more White South Africans was “a race-based policy”. He dismissed claims of an “alleged genocide” of Afrikaners as “fake news”.

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