Some Afrikaans say Trump was lied to a “white genocide” in South Africa: “This did not happen”
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio called U.S. refugee recruitment on Tuesday, all of this was paused except for a group or a “little subset” and a group or “little subset.” Afrikaans. They are members of white minorities and once led South Africa’s brutal four-inhabited regime that ended in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s presidential election.
The Trump administration has welcomed it The first group of South Africa's Dutch Shelter ApplicantThey were granted accelerated refugee status after they claimed they were victims of violence and discrimination in South Africa.
Other Afrikaners are waiting, keen to take advantage of the special treatment provided by the Trump administration to gain protected status and the right to live and work in the United States
Those who hope have been meeting to share information about the process, including the Dolf Grobler that has been applied for. Professional Hunter told CBS News that he has $2.5 million to help America be great again.
“I'm worried that the genocide, which is currently mainly concentrated on white farmers, will spread,” he said. White genocide claims Elon Musk, the family of President Trump’s adviser, is an Afrikaans.
Musk joins Mr. Trump at the White House on Wednesday as U.S. leader Host South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Make an official visit. The Africa refugee program is a topic of discussion, as well as trade and other matters. In an Oval Office meeting, Ramaphosa opposes the claims of the whites Trump has repeatedly targeted.
“In many cases, those people are being executed, they are being executed, exactly white, mostly farmers,” Trump said.
“Unfortunately, the people who were killed through criminal activities are not only white. Most of them are black,” Ramaphosa said.
According to South African police, 12 people were murdered there in the last three months of 2024. One is a white farmer, while the others are black workers or security personnel. Asked if he believed that his and his family’s lives were in apartheid situation, it was an openly racist minority system that denied equal rights to the vast majority of the black population in South Africa – grobler did not hesitate.
“Yes,” he told CBS News. “I can’t say in my heart that we are better now.” Although he did admit that segregation was wrong.
The claim of white genocide is often spread by right-wing groups, but this view is not widely held in the Afrikaan community.
Piet Croucamp Afrikaner, a scholar at Northwestern University in South Africa, said the claims are incorrect.
“There is no sign, never.” 64% of all boards in South Africa are still white. White South Africans earn much larger average income than black South Africans… They have better schools, better education, private health care. If you are white, this is the land of milk and honey. ”
Croucamp suspects South African government Strong stance against Israel's actions in Gaza,and Relationship with Chinacould have played a role in Mr. Trump's decision to accept the controversial amnesty plan for the Africa, but he thinks there is more.
“In South Africa, right-wing groups, so-called civil society groups, we know that they have access to the Trump administration because they claim that. And just over the last few days, they have, several times, they said that they will speak to the American government, as if they have access to them. And if you listen to what Trump has said, it corresponds exactly with the genocide narrative that they sell and that they market,” Croucamp said. “So when they say they can go straight into the Trump administration, I have to believe them, we see what Trump is doing.”
Congress Secretary Rubio insisted that U.S. foreign policy “does not require fair people, it involves the interests of the United States, insisted that Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, Virginia, baked on a refugee program on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Whites in South Africa make up only 7% of the country’s population, but they still own more than half of their entire farmland. According to Nick Serfontein, a South Dutch cattle farmer, despite the country’s alarming crime rate, racial motivation is often not a factor.
He admitted that violent attacks on farmers did occur, especially on agricultural land near big cities, where there are often poor people, but he said in general: “I feel safe. I sleep with the door open on the farm.”
It also accused the white farmers of being victims of land acquisition and the government seized the farm without providing compensation. In January, Ramaphosa signed legal measures to expropriate most of the unused land for public use, which his administration said was necessary to address the consequences of decades of apartheid. While the law provides fair compensation in most cases, in limited circumstances it also allows for collection without compensation. Any measure can be challenged in the court.
Mr Trump argued that this was unfairly targeting white landowners, although the law did not mention the race of anyone who could be affected by legislation.
More importantly, there is no single case of expropriation without any compensation in the 31 years since the end of apartheid.
Serfontein believes that the problem is not the government’s intentional effort to seize the white land without compensation, but “because the government is dysfunctional. The pattern is wrong.”
He said that for decades, land has handed over land to the black population and provided compensation to former owners under established rules, but there is no support for the new owner. So, about a decade ago, Serfontein helped launch a project designed to train new black farmers to work.
He said he personally helped train more than 700 young black farmers so far – the next generation of agricultural workers in the country.
“I'm very active, young people, young farmers are also very active,” he said.
As for a white genocide, he agreed with Krukamp and said bluntly: “This did not happen.”
Serfontein said he didn't know the histories of the Afrikaners who had already left for the US, and he didn't doubt they “probably had some unhappy experiences in South Africa, about a number of things. But let me tell you that if you went to NAMPO last week — NAMPO is the biggest agricultural show in the Southern Hemisphere — you would have found a vibe there between the farmers, young Farmers, old farmers, Black farmers, White farmers, that you've never experienced them.”
Serfontein said they wanted to farm in a country and most people knew the land had to be shared by black and white.
