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Questionable: Members of AfriForum and Solidarity met with US President Donald Trump’s administration last year. The consequences took the form of economic pressure. Photo: AfrForum/X

Charge AfriForum, Solidariteit over white ‘genocide’ hoax

When actors within a state engage with a foreign power and that engagement produces economic pressure on the state, the law must determine how such conduct is understood

Graphic: John McCann/M&G

UPDATED – US Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, offering hope to countries such as South Africa

The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August

Diplomacy: ‘The United States has taken an adversarial, aggressive stance against multilateralism in general. Even in the first term of President
Trump, he did the same with the G7 and other multilateral forums,’ international relations expert Donovan E Williams says. Photo: Supplied

US ratchets up diplomatic war against South Africa

The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed South Africa’s place in the G20, rejecting his United States counterpart Donald Trump’s claim that the country would be excluded from next year’s summit (X)

Ramaphosa slams Trump’s falsehoods on South Africa

In a national address, Ramaphosa said South Africa would attend the 2026 summit in Miami despite the US president’s suggestions otherwise

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (File photo)

Lesufi calls relocated Afrikaners ‘untransformed human beings’

He also said that ‘white only’ enclaves such as Kleinfontein would be dealt with within the ambit of the law

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

Lamola: Trump invited to G20, but attendance up to him to decide

The foreign minister reiterated that the US president’s offer of refugee status for Afrikaners was not made within the international definition of asylum

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump to snub November G20 summit in SA, again citing so-called persecution of whites

The department of international relations and cooperation rejected the claim, saying the government was bound by the Constitution to defend the rights of South Africans of all…

United States President, Donald Trump. (@WhiteHouse/X)

Trump announces 30% reciprocal tariffs for SA imports

The United States president said ‘some bad things’ are happening in the country

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump order cutting aid, offering sanctuary to Afrikaners is premised on factual inaccuracies, SA says

The department of international relations and cooperation said the order failed to recognise South Africa’s ‘profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid’

(Reuters)

Of ciphers and little favours

The Broederbond itself — dedicated to ensuring the supremacy of Afrikaners —was split into verkrampte and verligte tendencies

Flying the flag: Residents of Orania can

Orania pins its hopes on Ramaphosa

Afrikaner homeland ambitions may be renewed following the change in the political winds in both South Africa and Europe

The monument to the Irish

Brixton to Orania: The great trek of the Irish Volunteer Monument

Contentiously moved, the Afrikaner symbol now stands alongside apartheid figureheads.

Unlike most municipalities in the country, which are constitutionally mandated to serve every resident in their borders, irrespective of race, culture, or socio-economic status, Orania operates on a different premise: selective admission.

Orania: Afrikaner dream gives capitalism a human face

The Orania volkstaat is booming but equal opportunity favours the entrepreneurs and those who have made it on the outside.

Steve Hofmeyr throws tantrums because he simply won’t share his toys

The Afrikaans pop star has a big whinge on board, and he can’t shut up about it. He doesn’t see how well-off he is.

Steve Hofmeyr.

Steve Hofmeyr, ‘Die Stem’ and living in the past

Will some in the Afrikaans community ever make peace with the fact that a new, better country awaits their participation?

President Jacob Zuma addresses the Afrikaans community about the reopening of the land claims process.

Jacob Zuma’s koeksuster diplomacy kicks in

The Voortrekker Monument proved an ironic choice of venue to discuss land reform with Afrikaner farmers.

Front Nasionaal stokes the embers of the Afrikaner right

Dan Roodt and other Afrikaner have activists recently launched a new political platform, which aims to fight for Afrikaner self-determination.

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Tutu: Exclusion of Afrikaners an affront to Madiba

Desmond Tutu has slated the ANC’s exclusion of Afrikaners from Nelson Mandela’s funeral, saying it would have appalled Madiba.

#RedOctober in nine Instagrams

The Red October march against black-on-white violence, led by Steve Hofmeyr and Sunette Bridges, took place in Pretoria. Here’s what happened.

Red October march calls for end to black-on-white violence

Posters of dead farmers and old South African flags were waved about at the Red October march on the Union Buildings to protest "white genocide".