# Trump's Afrikaner asylum plan is 'race-based policy', South African FM claims

https://mins.news/en/video/76900

- France 24 English, 2026-09-28 10:39 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xr2ObZJ8-g

> South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola told FRANCE 24 in New York that Washington’s plan to accept up to 17,500 more White South Africans was a “race-based policy”. He dismissed claims of an “so-called genocide” against Afrikaners as “fake news”.

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