South African Communists reject Donald Trump’s racist propaganda

Trump on November 7, 2025 -- public domain image

South African Communist Party

SACP totally rejects Donald Trump’s racist propaganda about South Africa, reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s genocide on Palestinian people and the attacks by the same regime on Lebanon

Sunday, 9 November 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns and totally rejects United States president Donald Trump’s latest rant of blatant false information and racist propaganda against South Africa in which he claimed that Afrikaners are being slaughtered in South Africa. This lie has been debunked time and again even in his own country as well as by the very Afrikaners he claims to speak on behalf of.

As the SACP stated when Trump began his tirade against South Africa, which he now uses to miss the G20 meeting hosted in South Africa later this month, his baseless claims of white genocide and human rights abuses in South Africa is nothing but a futile effort to divert attention from the real genocide against the Palestinian people by the United States-backed apartheid Israeli settler regime. Trump also arrogantly displays his racist attitude by turning a blind eye to the plight of the landless black majority in South Africa, who were dispossessed under colonisation and apartheid, while falsely elevating claims of land confiscation from white people.

If Trump were genuine about genocide in any part of the world, he would instead focus on addressing the genocide against Palestinians by the apartheid Israeli settler regime, in which his government has played a pivotal role by supporting the apartheid Israeli regime militarily and politically, among other forms of support. The genocide in Palestine has also destroyed Palestinian social and economic infrastructure, including hospitals, healthcare centres, schools, learning institutions and places of worship, all while Trump chose to invest his resources to fabricate false claims of white genocide in South Africa.

In the same vein as we reiterate our strong condemnation of the genocide on the Palestinian people and the destruction of their infrastructure by the apartheid Israeli regime, we also strongly condemn the attacks by the same regime on Lebanon. The Lebanese government has correctly described the attacks as a blatant violation of its sovereign territory and the cease-fire agreement brokered in November 2024. This is also a fully-fledged crime under international humanitarian law. Reports indicate that Israeli forces have continued near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon despite the cease-fire, resulting in civilian casualties and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure.

The leaders of the apartheid Israeli settler regime must be held to account and must stop the aggression on Palestinians and Lebanon immediately.

The SACP calls for the people of South Africa to unite in defence of our national sovereignty and self-determination. We also reiterate the call for worldwide unity of the working class and all progressive forces against the United States-led imperialist war-mongering offensives, including direct military and trade wars. In addition to supporting the move towards a multipolar world, against the unipolar world which Trump is desperate to maintain, the SACP reiterates its support for the BRICS Plus partnership, which must become a vehicle to build a just and better world and systematically end uneven global development and the exploitation of one country’s resources and people by another.