THOUSANDS MARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA IN DEFENCE OF 'SOVEREIGNTY' AFTER US PRESSURE. (PHOTO).
Thousands march in South Africa in defence of 'sovereignty' after US pressure Thousands of South Africans marched Saturday to demand respect for their nation's sovereignty after months of pressure from US President Donald Trump on issues from trade to race relations. Trump has clashed repeatedly with South Africa's government, hitting the country with high tariffs, berating President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office over discredited claims of a "white genocide", and boycotting a G20 summit in Johannesburg last year. Marking Human Rights Day in South Africa - the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when apartheid police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters - Ramaphosa's party called for marches "in defence of our sovereignty and democratic gains". "The principle of national sovereignty is under attack from foreign and domestic forces," the party, the African National Congress (ANC), said in the manifesto convening the ...