The Federal: “It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” thundered President Trump last week. His reason: “Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated.” Anyone remotely aware of the history of African colonization, particularly the brutal form of governance first implemented by the Dutch and later reinforced by the British, would recognise where the American President’s proclivities seem to lie. To identify with oppressors in South Africa, Israel, and other racist regimes seems repugnant. This is the direction in which extreme right-wing regimes seem hellbent on nudging the world—toward the proverbial Leviathan: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Ironically, on the same day Trump issued his boycott call, his officials also boycotted their own human rights examination at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday (November 7).

That move prompted officials from several US states and advocates to stage an alternative hearing and issue a stark warning: the nation is facing a ‘moral and ethical crisis’ and sliding toward a system of ‘American apartheid’….

For other speakers, the crisis was not confined to any single policy. Robert Selim Holbrook from Philadelphia drew a direct parallel to apartheid-era South Africa. ‘The administration is running from accountability. It could no more defend its positions at home than apartheid South Africa could in the 80s,’ he said.”

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