Note that the "Asians" meaning South Asians have been improving their lot in life
Posted on 02/20/2025 9:03:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. President Donald Trump cut aid to South Africa last week due to what he described as “unjust racial discrimination” against Afrikaners over the country’s land reform law. Trump also cited South Africa’s International Court of Justice genocide case against Israel.
An anti-South Africa stance was predicted to be a key feature of a second Trump administration’s foreign policy given Pretoria’s friendly relations with Russia and China, but few would have foreseen an executive order awarding refugee status to Afrikaners—the white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers who dominated the country’s politics and led the apartheid regime from 1948 to 1994.
South African media queried whether Trump was even aware that Afrikaners differed from English-speaking whites like his South African-born billionaire advisor Elon Musk, whose criticisms of the South African government appear to be the source of the idea.
“It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship,” South Africa’s foreign ministry responded in a statement. It said the order lacked “factual accuracy” and was based on “a campaign of misinformation and propaganda.”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier said that his country would “not be bullied.” But the African National Congress (ANC) party has been unusually measured in its subsequent responses. Pretoria has said it will send a delegation to Washington that’s expected to include senior cabinet ministers and business leaders to explain its new law, worried that any further actions could rattle investors and tank South Africa’s economy.
Land reform is a crucial issue for the ANC, having lost its long-standing majority in last year’s elections
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South Africa’s largely white-controlled commercial agricultural sector generates employment and exports but contributes little to GDP. It contributed just 2.5 percent in 2023, according to the latest available data.
White people occupied about 62 percent of all top management posts in South Africa, despite representing less than 30 percent of the country’s professionally qualified workers. Their Black counterparts held about 17 percent of such posts in 2023 (despite them being roughly 50 percent of the professionally qualified population), according to South Africa’s Commission for Employment Equity.
Just 3 percent of the country’s biggest firms were controlled by Black South Africans in 2019.
More than three decades after the end of apartheid, about 70 percent of South Africa’s farmland is still owned by white South Africans, who make up 7 percent of the population. Their Black counterparts account for 80 percent of the population and own just 4 percent, making South Africa the world’s most unequal nation both in land use and income distribution using the Gini ratio—an index that measures inequality.
Ramaphosa last month signed an expropriation bill into law—which he says is similar to eminent domain in the United States, allowing the government to expropriate private land for public use. The law is aimed at addressing the disparity by allowing land to be seized without compensation only in circumstances where land is unused, abandoned, or “in the public interest”.
Since Afrikaners are the problem in South Africa, giving them refugee status and removing them is key to solving South African’s problems. You would think the ANC would be grateful for the help.
Trump did just that - offered Afrikaners priority immigration to the USA. They said in effect: “Thanks, but we’re staying put”.
The next Rat president could just deport them back. So coming here isn’t necessarily ideal.
From a geopolitical standpoint, this is the Civilized or Christian response to Communist Marxist thuggery. This is the end game if the true legacy of Mandela the commie.
“....seized WITHOUT COMPENSATION only in circumstances where land is .....“in the public interest”.
Yah, nothing insidious there!
So very much like our Eminent Domain Law, um, not.
As I recall previous murders and farm takeovers resulted in precipitous drops in production.
Then of course we are expected to donate the food to keep the populations fed.
No, no more.
Let them starve as the price of their socialism.
South Africa is the global equivalent of Detroit. Its corrupt, its politics are based on race and socialism, its bankrupt, its failing, and it needs to be defunded and reformed.
Trump is right to call them out.
Also, whites, Indians and coloreds need to be given the means to protect themselves from the marxist government.
Good. The socialists there are both racist and socialist. Worse than the prior folks in power.
Maybe Apartheid should have left in place. B
DNC Media Shill -- "U.S. government escalates".
BTTT
No they didn’t; it was a man from a small group who claimed that! Go read the comments on YouTube videos, written by Afrikaners… tens of thousands of have already signed up and more want to!
Note that the "Asians" meaning South Asians have been improving their lot in life
Most boer south africans do not want to leave - this is THEIR land where their ancestors have lived since the 1600s.
Note that the Dutch came before the Bantu speakers come in large numbers to South Africa.
Before 1600 - the population was Bushman/Khoi-San, NOT “black” i.e. West African. The Khoi-San are genetically and visually quite distinct from both West Africans and from Europeans. They were hunter-gatherers.
South Africa has a temperate climate and the Bantu-speaking people who had discovered agriculture before Christ and had spread with agriculture - the Bantus had no crops that grew in temperate climates, so they STOPPED at the borders.
The Europeans HAD crops that grew in temperate climates, so they settled the south.
Now their descendants are as much native south Africans as any Zulu
I understand, but their fates are sealed if they try and outwait this.
When a people’s genocide is assured, the only thing that can be done is to rebuild. If they aren’t facing genocide, they are facing chattel slavery.
On the plus side, they might be able to return to South Africa when their population has been right-sized.
I am sure that the concept of White African-Americans is disturbing to most leftists ...
They cannot “rebuild” by leaving their land.
If the Boers en masse move to the USA or the Netherlands, their culture is gone, they will be assimilated and they will cease to exist as a nation - that is a genocide, a self-inflict one, but a genocide (”death of a people”) nonetheless
So, they can’t adapt, when every other culture has come to America and adapted? It is unfortunate that they were predated upon by liberalism, but we can’t undo what was done. Whether they like it or not, they ate going to go extinct in South Africa. The black South Africans are not going to regain their sanity until after they killed off all the whites. Just like Zimbabwe.
The late Robin Williams:
Does the name Custer mean anything to you?
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