Critics of the executive order President Donald Trump signed in February to grant asylum status to Afrikaner refugees, while suspending aid to the South African government and shutting down many other refugee programs, accused him of fabricating or exaggerating the plight faced by the white minority in South Africa. American media organizations like the leftist New York Times (NYT) awkwardly struggled with South African police data to “prove” that, while a rather large number of whites have been killed on farms in South Africa relative to their share of the population, a lot of black citizens have been killed on farms, as well, and the evidence of systemic eradication necessary to support Trump’s claim of “genocide” does not exist: Ramaphosa and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), accused the Afrikaners of fleeing “changes” and “transformation” – which implicitly acknowledges the white minority has good reason to think they will come out on the losing end of the transformation process.
Author: John Hayward, John Hayward
Published at: 2025-05-13 21:15:47
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