Her native country is being wrecked by the same Communists that reduced Cuba from being the strongest economy in Latin America to almost the weakest, trailed only by Haiti. South Africa is only a few years behind Zimbabwe/Rhodesia on the road to barbarism and destitution. Charlize Theron is of Boer/Afrikaans background; her kinsmen, unlike the British or Jews, have no native or ancestral land to which to return. They are the descendants of Dutch, German, and French settlers who arrived in what is now South Africa in the 17th Century. Unlike the actress, who is a card carrying member of the Hollywood elite, the Boers are trapped in a nation in irreversible decline.
So she should know better than most anyone in Hollywood, and that's the real shame.