Government has received intelligence that there is going to be an offensive on BBB-EE laws in South Africa as a likely strategy by the USA to corner the country following the spectacular collapse of the “white genocide” false narrative this week, according to highly placed sources.
Sunday World understands the onslaught will seek to highlight that the redress laws meant to end economic imbalances of the past as mainly benefiting only Africans at the expense of Indians and coloured people.
Pretoria reportedly received “reliable intelligence” to this effect following its successful visit to the White House this week, where the “white genocide” house of cards by US President Donald Trump and his associate, billionaire Elon Musk, crumbled in front of the whole world.
Subsequently, according to our government moles who are familiar with the issues, the next phase of the propaganda against South Africa will be to attack BBB-EE in another effort to discredit the government.
The accusations are believed to include a deliberate attempt to paint South Africa as an anti-Semitic nation.
Sunday World understands this is part of an orchestrated ploy for the US to centre itself as the leaders of this global right-wing movement that highlights white victimhood.
“The next thing that they are going to hit us with is that we are anti-Semitic, and the other thing is the classification for coloureds and Indians.
“I suppose [former US ambassador Ebrahim] Rasool was not entirely wrong, it is just that he said it on a public platform. They see diversity, equality and inclusion as one of the instruments used to victimise white people and SA is the epitome of this,” according to a source who was at the White House this week.
This week, President Cyril Ramaphosa led a South African delegation to Washington DC, for a working visit where Trump ambushed him about allegations of an Afrikaner farmers’ genocide in the country.
During a press briefing in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump staged a Zelenskyy-like attack on the South African delegation about the false genocide narrative. This was done using videos of EFF leader Julius Malema calling for land expropriation without compensation and singing the “kill the Boer” struggle song.
The US president had also compiled a dossier of articles that were centred around farm killings in the country, which he later handed to Ramaphosa.
Some of the articles contained pictures from events that happened in other countries, such as a picture from the DRC purported to be about farm killings in South Africa.
The falsification of the articles turned Trump and the White House into a laughingstock across the world, including among US traditional allies such as the UK, whose news publications exposed Trump’s lies.
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told Sunday World that he would not weigh in on the matter. He instead highlighted how Trump deliberately blindsided Ramaphosa but failed in his attempt to unsettle him.
In his agenda to embarrass the South African delegation, Trump apparently went as far as changing the programme at the very last minute, with the media briefing being held before the closed session between the two nations.
“What you saw in the oval office was pure political theatre, that was well- planned, well- staged. You could see with the White House staffers that something was afoot. Normally what happens when you have a working visit is that you start with the meeting, then you give the media a broad outline of the issues which were discussed,” he said.
Magwenya adds that the actual meeting, which was held behind closed doors after the theatrics in the media engagement, was cordial and structured and did not include the white genocide misinformation.
“The real meeting happened behind closed doors, and out of the real meeting, we are greatly satisfied that we were able to reset the relations. We were able to get a broad understanding of moving forward with the formulation of a new trade relationship,” he said.
The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau has tabled a new trade package, which has been deemed to be mutually beneficial. The country now awaits a response from the US about the proposal.
The closed meeting also included high-level discussions about tariffs, particularly concerning vehicles because of the country’s appetite to accelerate its manufacturing capacity. There was a broad discussion about tariffs and the expansion on existing trade.
