Posted on 06/27/2025 10:07:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A farmer family gives ‘The American Spectator’ a profile in melancholy.
Gideon Jacobs has lived a life of the land. Farm-to-table was never a long sojourn for the barrel-chested Afrikaner, whose accent carries the history of his people. A base of Dutch, dashes of English, Malay, and a dozen more tongues built a language as uniquely native to South African soil as the people who claimed it as their own.
Less than 100 Dutch pioneers began the saga of Afrikanderdom in 1652, a century before Zulu expansionism brought that nation to fame. Former South African President Jacob Zuma, whose rule was a turning point in the post-apartheid era from rainbow nation to black nationalism, called the landing “the start of the trouble for this country.” Yet, even Zuma, for all his diatribes, had to begrudgingly dub the Afrikaners “truly African.”
The nation is at its nadir. Thirty-three years after the 43-year tragedy of Apartheid, South Africa now has over a hundred pieces of racial legislation. This time, the aim is squarely on the Afrikaners. Brutal attacks hit Afrikaner farms in wave after wave, even as the state threatens to seize those farms without compensation. (RELATED: The Plight of the Afrikaners Is a Clarifying Moment for Western Civilization)
In the face of crisis, Afrikaners have turned away from the state in ways unseen for a century. For an increasing number, this has meant immigration to the United States. Under the Trump administration, channels were opened to welcome Afrikaners as refugees for the first time, despite a vitriolic reaction from many progressives. (RELATED: Refugee Agency Forced to Fire Worker Who Disparaged Afrikaners)
Gideon Jacobs has been a part-time American since 2016. A proud Afrikaner born in...
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I feel for these people and I for one welcome them with open arms.
I get they lament for their Homeland however, I hope they see the bright side.....at least they and especially their children still have their heads attached to their bodies.....to remain in in SA, they would have no such guarantee.
You’re right!
I hope that they can become farmers again in the USA!
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South Africa is going the way of Rhodesia. In ten years the whites will be essentially gone.
I would expect someone to be homesick for their homeland.
It’s no reflection on the US, no matter how the left tries to paint it.
Americans do love their foreigners. Liberals welcomed foreigners at the airport with open arms too. Must be both sides love immigrants.
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