# Trump takes aim at South Africa

An episode of [The Rachman Review](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1504048545), 18 Dec 2025, 27 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/therachmanreview/e/6942ee31f46fd490ce6448a5/media.mp3

Donald Trump has accused South Africa of carrying out a genocide against its white population. He also says the nation does not deserve to be a member of the G20, which it hosted last month. FT Africa editor David Pilling - standing in for Gideon - puts these allegations to two South Africans, Lawson Naidoo, a civil society activist, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, a foreign policy expert. What is the state of race relations in the country and how are South Africans reacting to the allegations? Clip: CNN Free links to read more on this topic: South Africa arrests Kenyans working at US-run Afrikaner ‘refugee’ centre The ‘pampered princess’ accused of trafficking South Africans to Russia How South Africa’s underworld infiltrated its government South Africans question future of Black empowerment policies South Africa’s credit rating upgraded for first time in two decades Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Devid Pilling. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner and the executive producer is Flo Phillips. Follow Gideon on Bluesky or X @gideonrachman.bsky.social, @gideonrachman Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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