‘Trump is targeting softer BRICS partners to send a message to other major BRICS players,’ says academic Kedibone Phago - ‘The truth which everybody knows, including the US president, is that there is no genocide against white farmers in South Africa. There is no targeting of white South Africans and Afrikaners in particular,’ says Phago ISTANBUL Diplomatic tensions between the US and South Africa have escalated sharply following Washington’s expulsion of South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool,