US to end funding of South Africa's HIV programmes over claims of Afrikaner persecution
The US says South Africa is not doing enough to protect the white-minority Afrikaner community.
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"South Africa's health ministry has said that while Pepfar contributed to the country's HIV programme, the provision of life-saving antiretroviral drugs was funded entirely separately."
— Cyril Ramaphosa , Politician
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The US says South Africa is not doing enough to protect the white-minority Afrikaner community.
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