'AFRIKANERS NOT TO BLAME FOR TRUMP'

The Afrikaner Leadership Network says Afrikaners in South Africa are not to blame for misinforming US President Donald Trump ahead of today’s showdown talks with Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Trump and his administration have claimed that the SA government is persecuting Afrikaners by confiscating farms and sanctioning farm murders and welcomed over 50 “refugees” last week.

With Ramaphosa and his delegation of Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, Minister of Trade and Industry Parks Tau, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, foreign affairs minister Ronald Lamola and special envoy to the US, in Washington, D.C. this week, 

Afrikaner Leadership Network's Theuns Eloff said it is wrong for anyone to blame Afrikaners for misinforming Trump.

He tells Newszroom Africa: "Let me speak about the American administration and separate them from Mr Trump himself. 

“Mr Trump may believe things that he has been told by we don’t know who, not by any Afrikaners’ organisations of this country. 

“As the Afrikaner Leadership Network, when we met with the ANC, we said we had never said there is white genocide and we had never said there is large-scale expropriation of white or Afrikaner farms. So he got it somewhere.

“This thing of misinformation is bandied about. If I were in the American administration and I had to advise the president, I would ask the embassy in South Africa and probably the CIA [US's Central Intelligence Agency] who can read everything that is being said on South African media and South African social media.