The South African Communist Party (SACP) says the false claims of Afrikaner refugees who recently left for the United States of America (USA) are aimed at forcing South Africa to halt its transformation policies.
The communist party also says the country is being penalised for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
This is contained in a post-political bureau (Politburo) statement of the party issued on Monday following a meeting on Friday last week in Johannesburg.
“The Politburo looked at the racist United States’ refugee programme in South Africa, initiated and negotiated by South African right-wing sects with the intention of pressuring the South African government against transformation and redress.
“On the part of the United States, the so-called refugee programme is part of its wider reaction against South Africa’s decision to refer the apartheid Israeli settler regime to the International Court of Justice, for the apartheid Israeli regime to be held accountable for the genocide it has been committing and continue committing against the Palestinian people,” the Politburo said.
It added that the actions of the South African right-wing organisations are not a reflection of the real conditions in South Africa, nor do they represent any legitimate grievance on any matter of importance, but based on fallacy.
“The refugee programme of the US government is based on a fallacy concocted by anti-transformation forces in South Africa, intended ultimately to construct a racialised international solidarity for their benefit, underpinned by white nationalism and white supremacy and rejection of democracy.”
With Ramaphosa and his delegation in the USA, the Politburo said the South African delegation to Washington must emphasise the fundamental right to self-determination and democratic sovereignty.
“At the same time, South Africa must strengthen the development of the Global South’s economic and political relations as a shared objective among the people in this region of the world.
“The South African government, therefore, must not be found acting to promote the interests of forces whose aims are detrimental to the development and transformation of our country. Any and all engagements with the United States should foreground these principles.”
