Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees, but what persecution are they facing?

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort for a minority group who are being persecuted by their Black-led government because of their race.

The South Africans’ applications are being fast-tracked by the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced the relocation program in February.

The Trump administration has taken an anti-migrant stance, suspending refugee programs and halting arrivals from other parts of the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Refugee groups have questioned why some white South Africans are being prioritized.

South Africa says there’s no persecution

The South African government said the U.S. allegations that the white minority Afrikaners in question are being persecuted are “completely false,” the result of misinformation and an inaccurate view of its country. It cited the fact that Afrikaners are among the richest and most successful people in the country, and said they are amongst “the most economically privileged.”

Afrikaners are the descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. There are around 2.7 million Afrikaners among South Africa’s population of 62 million, which is more than 80% Black. Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that Afrikaners are persecuted and meet the requirements to be refugees.

Afrikaners are part of South Africa’s everyday multi-racial life: many are successful business leaders and some serve in government as Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. Their language is widely spoken — including by non-Afrikaners — and is recognized...

Trump and his South African-born adviser Elon Musk have accused the South African government of having racist anti-white laws and policies, but the claims of persecution center on a relatively small number of violent farm attacks and robberies on white people in rural communities.

"Just a handful," as Martha Raddatz would say.

The Founder of Kiepersol, Pierre de Wet was raised in South Africa on a farm named Kiepersol.

Google Kiepersol Bullard to see what Pierre has created in East Texas. His family continues his legacy operating his businesses from the foundation he created.

Agricultural consulting, vineyards, wine, distillery, restaurant, B&B, residential real estate development, etc.

“... but what persecution are they facing?”

Leave it to the AP to form a headline giving the impression that there is very little persecution of white citizens going on in South Africa.

I’ll read the article itself a little later — after I’ve consumed another couple cups of coffee.

For American Pravda to even ask such a thing shows how completely FOS they are. Anybody who has paid any attention at all to what has been happening in South Africa sees the soaring crime, the country steadily becoming a failed state, the open and overt racial hatred for White South Africans who are a persecuted minority....the farm invasions, the “expropriation without compensation” (ie outright theft) of their land, the murders, the government disarming them in the face of dire threats to their lives, etc.

Only a far Left propaganda outlet would even try to question the fact that they are a persecuted minority and are true refugees - EXACTLY the kind of people our asylum laws are meant to protect. This is in stark contrast to the over 10 million economic migrants Biden let in when ignoring our immigration laws. Leftists are just upset about this because they know these are future Republican voters as opposed to the future Democrat voters they let in over the last 4 years.

Once the SA communists finally drive the white farmers off the land, famine will quickly follow. SA is a textbook case on how long it takes communist locusts to suck the life out of its capitalist host.

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Apartheid in South Africa officially ended with the nation’s first multiracial and multiparty election on April 27, 1994

In South Africa, white farmers have for years been exposed to an unprecedented wave of violence. Statistically, a farm is attacked every day in South Africa. South Africa has the world’s highest murder rate, but the murder rate among white South Africans is three times higher than the national average, while that of white farmers is six times higher. Often, the victims are tortured and ill-treated for hours before being killed.

Since the end of apartheid in 1994, up to 4 000 white farmers have been murdered. The police investigate these crimes only half-heartedly. The organisation ‘Genocide Watch’ warns of the threat of genocide.

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