AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel
In response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the United States of America where he and his delegation met President Donald Trump, AfriForum’s CEO Kallie Kriel is of the opinion that all South Africans must work together to solve farm killings.
Ramaphosa’s delegation included prominent Afrikaaners like billionaire Johaan Rupert, former golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, as well as Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen.
Some political commentators, including Ramaphosa, admit that there is a general crisis in the country regarding crime, but are quick to point out that there is no genocide specifically aimed at white Afrikaaner farmers.
Be that as it may, Kallie Kriel insists that the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa highlighted the scourge of farm murders.
“The Afrikaaners who were part of Ramaphosa’s delegation confirmed the existence of the scourge of farm murders and Retief Goosen told the story of how his mother was attacked at the family farm in Limpopo and that his brother has to live behind high electric fences and that there is ongoing theft that happens at the farms in South Africa,” said Kriel.
“Now that the Afrikaaners who formed part of Ramaphosa’s delegation gave a first hand account of the problems that bedevil Afrikaaners at their farms, I think this is a good thing and we must say since the scourge has now been recognised as a serious problem, we must now work together to try and solve it,” said Kriel.
In the months leading to the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa, AfriForum called for Trump to punish the ANC and the government that it leads.
AfriForum also blamed the ANC for the departure of 49 Afrikaaners who quit the country to go and live permanently as refugees in the United States of America.
At the said meeting Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, who is an Afrikaaner, refuted AfriForum’s clains that there is genocide aimed at Afrikaaners in South Africa.
Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed hope that after meeting Trump, the volatile USA leader would reverse his negative attitude towards South Africa and discard the lies that were fed to him by AfriForum.
Ramaphosa’s main concern is to foster good trade relations with the USA and make sure that the country doesn’t get kicked out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which was enacted by former USA President Barack Obama in 2000.
Its aim is to encourage growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing duty-free access to the USA market for goods coming from eligible African countries.