'50,000 Afrikaners seeking sanctuary in US'
Source: The Times (UK)
Almost 50,000 Afrikaners have made inquiries about gaining asylum in America under President Trumps refugee programme, the US State Department has said.
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After taking office Trump indefinitely suspended Americas refugee resettlement programme, under which about 60,000 people entered the US in 2023, but made an exception for white South Africans. The president and his allies have repeated conspiracy theories there has been a white genocide of Afrikaners in South Africa.
They have also claimed white farmers were having their land seized under a new government policy, but no land has been expropriated and white South Africans who make up 7.3 per cent of the population still own 73 per cent of commercial farmland.
John Steenhuisen, South Africas white agricultural minister, and others have questioned whether real white farmers are going to the US or merely those who have been unsuccessful.
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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/50000-afrikaners-seeking-sanctuary-in-us-3j0bt8qnm

EYESORE 9001
(29,005 posts)in an attempted coup in South Africa? Thats my wild-azz guess.
Marcuse
(8,671 posts)JustAnotherGen
(36,989 posts)People in America. They'll test them on us.
slightlv
(6,547 posts)What better army than a band of mercenaries beholding to trump to make it so? After all, they have real world experience on how to finish off the down-trodden masses... especially when they're lazy ass Americans who can't discern truth from fiction.
Trueblue1968
(18,725 posts)Hekate
(99,371 posts)Lonestarblue
(12,916 posts)Just what we need50,000 more white supremacists who support apartheid against minorities.
SunSeeker
(56,621 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,164 posts)Paladin
(31,568 posts)The last thing this country of ours needs is another batch of apartheid advocates.
Clouds Passing
(5,724 posts)Javaman
(64,467 posts)the orange asshole deported hard working, grossly overlooked people in favor of his whites only policy.
well, farmers are screaming for cheap labor, well, here they are. put them to work.
if we are to follow the repuke credo, these immigrants need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn their keep.
Dave Bowman
(5,795 posts)DavidDvorkin
(20,340 posts)who is the leader of the liberal opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has an Afrikaans surname. He's also from Durban, an urban center.
Interesting to me, anyway.
He's an example of how things have changed in the white population of SA since I left there almost 70 years ago.
travelingthrulife
(3,209 posts)electric_blue68
(23,793 posts)I'm sure drumphf, and (ptooie) Miller are gleeful.
Shouldn't even be one!



I think Miller may be worse than drumphf in his racism, etc; certainly somewhat smarter.
BurnDoubt
(1,005 posts)now voting for authoritarian candidates.
So... NO.....
Jilly_in_VA
(12,985 posts)NO WAY! NO HOW! NO TIME!
Martin68
(26,437 posts)ruet
(10,155 posts)after the current dust-up with Elon Musk, Trump doesn't put the kibosh on this and send ICE out for a visit.