Afrikaaner charity Boere Gemeenskap Transvaal – which is on a collection drive for impoverished white children in need – has defended its move to ringfence donations for a specific race group.

The charity event, advertised on Facebook under the title “White children [in] need off [of] food”, was held at the weekend.

“It is our white children that have a huge problem and people don’t know their hardships,” a spokesperson for Boere Gemeenskap Transvaal, who would not identify herself, told Times Select...