How a White Fringe Group Drew Trump’s Ire on South Africa

A White Afrikaans rights group’s years of lobbying right-wing US politicians culminated in President Donald Trump on Friday falsely accusing South Africa of seeking to seize land from “ethnic minority Afrikaners” and withholding financial aid to the nation.

The accusation of racist policy against the country that overcame apartheid sparked an unusually united condemnation across the South African political spectrum. But the fringe groups that have spent years promoting the narrative that the government is oppressing the White minority that once ruled the country said Trump had a point — even as they tried to roll back some of their ...