{"id":15785,"date":"2026-01-10T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:39:11","slug":"ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-and-solidarity-for-undermining-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15785\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa slams AfriForum and Solidarity for &#8216;undermining democracy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed AfriForum and Solidarity over alleged attempts to undermine South Africa\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The two organisations are accused of lobbying the United States, claiming that race-based laws in South Africa discriminate against white citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers believe that these actions have influenced the Trump administration\u2019s hardline stance toward Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the annual January 8 statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ANCJAN82026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ANCJAN82026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusstAlpha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@JusstAlpha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zBQMlxkl2k\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zBQMlxkl2k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewnreporter\/status\/2009953941195542579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 10, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ANC&#8217;s annual January 8 statement at Moruleng stadium in the North west on Saturday, Ramaphosa condemned the two organisations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their aim is to undermine South Africa\u2019s constitutional democracy, to undermine it non-racialism, non-sexism and our transformation project. They employ multi-faceted falsehoods, including the propagation of blatant falsehoods such as the claim that there is a white genocide in South Africa,&#8221; said Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed AfriForum and Solidarity over alleged attempts to undermine South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-15785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}