‘No thanks’: White South Africans reject Trump’s American immigration offerings | Political news

The executive command of the US president offers resettlement for Afrikaners who are victims of unjust racial discrimination. “

President Donald Trump’s offer from the United States to accommodate white South Africans again, because refugees who are fleeing persecution may not stimulate the hurry he expects, because right-wing white lobby groups “the injustice of the black majority of Want to “tackle” the black majority on a home floor.

Trump signed an executive order on Friday to reduce our help to South Africa, referring to a expropriation law That President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month with the aim of restoring inequalities in the country that arise from the history of white supremation of South Africa.

Trump’s order caused resettlement in the US of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” as refugees.

Afrikaners are usually white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who have the majority of agricultural land of the country.

“If you have no problems here, why would you want to go?” asked Neville van der Merwe, a 78-year-old pensioner in Bothasig near Cape Town.

“There has not been really bad [people] People take over, the people go on like normal and you know, what are you going to do there? “

The law signed by Ramaphosa wants racial inequalities in the land ownership of three-quarters of private land in South Africa in the hands of the white minority-by making it easier for the state to expropriate land in the public interest.

Ramaphosa has defended the policy.

White people represent 7.2 percent of the population of 63 million in South Africa, according to data from the Statistics Office. The data does not split how many Afrikaners are.

Before the independence of South Africa, the British colonial rulers handed over the most agricultural land to whites. In 1950, the national party of apartheid from apartheid grabbed 85 percent of the country and forced 3.5 million black people from their houses.

The African National Congress (ANC) of Ramaphosa, the largest party in the ruling coalition, says that Trump reinforces incorrect information by Afriforum, a group led by Afrikaner.

The group, which lobbyed the previous government of Trump with regard to the cause of Trump, said it was not taking on the offer.

“Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to run the risk of sacrificing the cultural identity of their descendants as Afrikaners. The price for that is just too high, “said Kallie Kriel, CEO of Afiforum, Saturday.

Home land

Separately, the solidarity movement – which includes Afriforum and the Solidarity Trade Union and said that it represents around 600,000 Afrikaner families and two million people – commitment to South Africa.

“We can’t agree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in every community, there are individuals who want to emigrate, but repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us, “said the solidarity movement.

Representatives of Orania, an enclave only Afrikaner in the heart of the country, also rejected Trump’s offer.

“Afrikaners do not want to be refugees. We love and are committed to our home country, “said Orania.

South Africa’s land policy since the end of apartheid has never taken into account the forced seizure of white country.

Yet some said they appreciated Trump’s offer.

“I think it is a very nice gesture from Donald Trump to offer us asylum,” said Werner van Niekerk, 57, a carpenter in Bothasig, without saying if he would migrate to the US.

Others saw the funny side.

“A few questions: Is there a test to determine your Afrikanership? Do you have to hold Afiforum membership? … will Elon help on the other hand with some start -up content money? … are there cups (pick-up trucks) in the US? “Wrote author Pieter du Tit on X, where a reference to the billionaire and Trump assistant Elon Musk, born in South Africa, accused the government of Ramaphosa, accused” openly racist property laws “.