{"id":17377,"date":"2025-08-18T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=17377"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:57:17","slug":"south-africa-slams-u-s-human-rights-report-as-deeply-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/17377\/south-africa-slams-u-s-human-rights-report-as-deeply-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa slams U.S. human rights report as \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has strongly rejected the latest\u00a0<em>U.S. Human Rights Report on South Africa<\/em>, calling it inaccurate, biased, and a distortion of the country\u2019s constitutional reality.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-page document, released by Washington this week, claimed that South Africa\u2019s human rights situation had \u201csignificantly worsened,\u201d citing land expropriations from Afrikaners, \u201cabuses against racial minorities,\u201d and alleged extrajudicial killings in provinces like KwaZulu-Natal. DIRCO dismissed the claims as misleading, stressing that criminal suspects are formally arraigned in court and that the report relied on \u201cdiscredited accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The department also criticized the U.S. for issuing judgments on other countries while itself refusing supervision by international mechanisms like the U.N. Human Rights Council. It noted America\u2019s own unresolved human rights challenges, including racial inequality and systemic violence.<\/p>\n<p>International relations analyst\u00a0Zimkhita Nene\u00a0echoed that point, saying the critique exposed a glaring inconsistency:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a double standard by major proportions. South Africa\u2019s constitution meets international standards and goes further by including socioeconomic rights to address historical injustice. In America, you have movements such as\u00a0<em>Black Lives Matter<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Say Their Names<\/em>, which highlight institutionalized violence specifically targeting people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Pretoria and Washington have remained strained, particularly since South Africa filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over alleged violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza. Tensions worsened under Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, when the U.S. cut aid to South Africa and expelled its ambassador following criticisms of American policy.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola recently warned that repeated U.S. interference in South Africa\u2019s domestic affairs had pushed bilateral relations \u201cto a low.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has strongly rejected the latest\u00a0U.S. Human Rights Report on South Africa, calling it inaccurate, biased, and a distortion of the country\u2019s constitutional reality. The 21-page document, released by Washington this week, claimed that South Africa\u2019s human rights situation had \u201csignificantly worsened,\u201d citing land expropriations from Afrikaners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,34,30],"tags":[4004,1588,3741,122,4299],"class_list":["post-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-society","category-southern-africa","tag-department-of-international-relations-and-cooperation-dirco","tag-israel","tag-pretoria","tag-south-africa","tag-u-s-human-rights-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}