“I think that President Ramaphosa dealt with falsehoods as well as he could. But of course, no one can ever be prepared for that kind of ambush.”
—Dr Sithembile Mbete, PARI’s Executive Director, on President Ramaphosa’s visit to the Oval Office on 21 May 2025, where President Trump presented unfounded evidence depicting Afrikaner persecution in South Africa.
“Many of those articles are from fringe outlets that aren’t backed by any statistics at all. And even those images of the white crosses on the sides of the road, there is no site like that in South Africa.”
