加纳John Dramani Mahama 总统批评唐纳德·特朗普总统关于南非白人种族灭绝的说法

另一个分离主义小镇奥拉尼亚（Orania）的学校仅教授南非荷兰语，拥有自己的商会以及严格在境内流通的货币 “奥拉币”。据报道，奥拉尼亚文化历史博物馆内陈列着除 FW de Klerk 外每位种族隔离时期总统的半身像——正是这位总统启动的改革废除了种族隔离法律。

克莱因方丹与奥拉尼亚至今依然存在，并以其宁静的生活方式为荣。为何那些前往美国的白人没有选择在这两处寻求庇护？

若南非黑人真想报复白人，他们早该在数十年前伤痛记忆犹新时就采取行动。时至今日，对早已宽恕之人施以残杀迫害还能获得什么？

联合国经济和社会事务部数据显示，南非半数人口年龄在 29 岁以下，这些后种族隔离时代出生的年轻人理应致力于建设 "彩虹之国"。他们有何理由突然对白人发动种族清洗？

Ramaphosa 总统猝不及防地面对特朗普的无端指控及被篡改的配图——其中某张葬礼照片实际摄于刚果。当 Ramaphosa 先生坚称其政府不存在任何官方歧视政策时，特朗普拒绝倾听。

Tutu 大主教曾说："若要摧毁一个民族，就先摧毁他们的记忆，抹除他们的历史。" 但记忆是绵长的，它流淌在我们子孙的血脉中，那些恐怖经历已镌刻在细胞层面。只要这些故事仍在家庭、教堂、理发店、学校、文艺作品中被传颂，我们非洲儿女就将永远铭记幸存历程与自我认同。

Mzee Ngugĩ wa Thiong'o 写道："认知的过程很简单。无论去向何方，你总从立足处启程。" 我们携带着不可磨灭的历史前行——只要刚果矿坑里还有孩童丧生，只要苏丹仍将强奸作为战争武器，这段历史就永不湮灭。

世界正陷入真实危机：真正的难民被富国拒之门外，真实的婴儿因国际援助骤停而夭折，此刻全球各地正在发生真实的种族灭绝。

2025 年 5 月 21 日，唐纳德·特朗普在白宫向 Cyril Ramaphosa 先生展示其声称是南非墓地现场的照片

'Real Genocides Are Happening in Real Time All across the Globe' – Mahama Takes on Trump

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has penned a strongly worded editorial castigating the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, in The Guardian.

The write-up, which was published on theguardian.com on May 28, 2025, was in response to how President Trump ambushed the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, with supposed evidence of white genocide, the killing of white people by blacks, in South Africa during a recent meeting at the White House.

President Mahama, in his write-up, questioned the basis of the claim of white genocide in South Africa (SA) as he narrated the country's history.

He asserted that the US president's claim of a white genocide could not be farther from reality, accusing him of backing his claim with misleading visuals.

"Ramaphosa was blindsided by Trump with those unfounded accusations and the accompanying display of images that were misrepresented - in one image, pictures of burials were actually from Congo. Trump refused to listen as Ramaphosa insisted that his government did not have any official policies of discrimination," President Mahama wrote.

He pointed out that there are real issues the world is grappling with that need to be addressed, including issues of refugees and a disruption in international aid.

"Mzee Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o wrote: 'The process of knowing is simple. No matter where you want to journey, you start from where you are.' We journey forward with a history that cannot be erased, and will not be erased. Not while there are children dying in the mines of the Congo, and rape is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan.

"Our world is in real crisis; real refugees are being turned away from the borders of the wealthiest nations, real babies will die because international aid has been abruptly stopped, and real genocides are happening in real time all across the globe," Mahama wrote.

Read Mahama's full write-up published by theguardian.com:

The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about the preservation of essential historical truths. The US president's claims of white genocide conflict with the actual racial persecution and massacres that took place during the two centuries of colonisation and nearly 50 years of apartheid in South Africa.

It is not enough to be affronted by these claims, or to casually dismiss them as untruths. These statements are a clear example of how language can be leveraged to extend the effects of previous injustices. This mode of violence has long been used against Indigenous Africans. And it cannot simply be met with silence - not any more.

The Kenyan writer Mzee Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote: "Language conquest, unlike the military form, wherein the victor must subdue the whole population directly, is cheaper and more effective."

African nations learned long ago that their fates are inextricably linked. When it comes to interactions with the world beyond our continent, we are each other's bellwether. In 1957, the year before my birth, Ghana became the first Black African country to free itself from colonialism. After the union jack had been lowered, our first prime minister, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, gave a speech in which he emphasised that, "our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa".

Shortly after, in 1960, was the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, which resulted in 69 deaths and more than 100 wounded. In Ghana, thousands of miles away, we marched, we protested, we gave cover and shelter. A similar solidarity existed in sovereign nations across the continent. Why? Because people who looked like us were being subjugated, treated as second-class citizens, on their own ancestral land. We had fought our own versions of that same battle.

I was 17 in June 1976, when the South African Soweto uprising took place. The now-iconic photo of a young man, Mbuyisa Makhubo, carrying the limp, 12-year-old body of Hector Pieterson, who had just been shot by the police, haunted me for years. It so deeply hurt me to think that I was free to dream of a future as this child was making the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom and future of his people. Hundreds of children were killed in that protest alone. It is their blood, and the blood of their forebears that nourishes the soil of South Africa.

The racial persecution of Black South Africans was rooted in a system that was enshrined in law. It took worldwide participation through demonstrations, boycotts, divestments and sanctions to end apartheid so that all South Africans, regardless of skin colour, would be considered equal. Nevertheless, the effects of centuries-long oppression do not just disappear with the stroke of a pen, particularly when there has been no cogent plan of reparative justice.

Despite making up less than 10% of the population, white South Africans control more than 70% of the nation's wealth. Even now, there are a few places in South Africa where only Afrikaners are permitted to own property, live, and work. At the entrance to once such settlement, Kleinfontein, is an enormous bust of Hendrik Verwoerd, the former prime minister who is considered the architect of apartheid.

Another separatist town, Orania, teaches only Afrikaans in its schools, has its own chamber of commerce, as well as its own currency, the ora, that is used strictly within its borders. It has been reported that inside the Orania Cultural History Museum there is a bust of every apartheid-era president except FW de Klerk, who initiated reforms that led to the repeal of apartheid laws.

Both Kleinfontein and Orania are currently in existence, and they boast a peaceful lifestyle. Why had the America-bound Afrikaners not sought refuge in either of those places?

Had the Black South Africans wanted to exact revenge on Afrikaners, surely, they would have done so decades ago when the pain of their previous circumstances was still fresh in their minds. What, at this point, is there to be gained by viciously killing and persecuting people you'd long ago forgiven?

According to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, half of the population of South Africa is under 29, born after the apartheid era and, presumably, committed to building and uplifting the "rainbow nation". For what reason would they suddenly begin a genocide against white people?

Ramaphosa was blindsided by Trump with those unfounded accusations and the accompanying display of images that were misrepresented - in one image, pictures of burials were actually from Congo. Trump refused to listen as Ramaphosa insisted that his government did not have any official policies of discrimination.

"If you want to destroy a people," Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, "you destroy their memory, you destroy their history." Memory, however, is long. It courses through the veins of our children and their children. The terror of what we have experienced is stored at a cellular level. As long as those stories are told, at home, in church, at the beauty and barber shop, in schools, in literature, music and on the screen, then we, the sons and daughters of Africa, will continue to know what we've survived and who we are.

Mzee Ngugĩ wa Thiong'o wrote: "The process of knowing is simple. No matter where you want to journey, you start from where you are." We  ourney forward with a history that cannot be erased, and will not be erased. Not while there are children dying in the mines of the Congo, and rape is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan.

Our world is in real crisis; real refugees are being turned away from the borders of the wealthiest nations, real babies will die because international aid has been abruptly stopped, and real genocides are happening in real time all across the globe.

At the White House, Donald Trump shows Cyril Ramaphosa what he claims are images of burial sites in South Africa, 21 May 2025

来源：GhanaWeb

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