White South Africans decline Trump’s offer of immigration

President Donald Trump of the United States may not get the rush he expects from his offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees escaping persecution since even right-wing white lobby organizations want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule at home.

Citing an expropriation legislation enacted last month by President Cyril Ramaphosa to address land disparities resulting from South Africa’s history of white supremacy, Trump issued an executive order on Friday to reduce U.S. aid to South Africa.

“Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” might be resettled as refugees in the United States, according to the decision.
The majority of Afrikaners are white and descended from early French and Dutch settlers who had the majority of the nation’s agricultural land.

In Bothasig, close to Cape Town, Neville van der Merwe, 78, remarked, “If you don’t have any problems here, why would you want to go?”

“There hasn’t been any really bad taking over our land, the people are carrying on like normal and you know, what are you going to do over there?”

The goal of the law is to facilitate the state’s expropriation of land in the public interest, so addressing the racial land ownership discrepancies that have left the white minority holding three-quarters of privately owned land.

Ramaphosa has stood up for the program.

According to statistics, white people make up 7.2% of South Africa’s 63 million inhabitants. How many are Afrikaner is not broken down in the statistics.

The majority of farmland was given to Europeans by South Africa’s British overlords. The National Party, which was active during the Apartheid era, took over 85% of the land in 1950, uprooting 3.5 million Black people from their homes.

According to Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), the largest party in the government coalition, Trump is spreading false information that is being spread by the Afrikaner-led organization AfriForum.

The organization said it was not accepting the offer, despite having pushed Trump’s prior government on their behalf.

“The only people who can benefit from emigration are Afrikaners who are prepared to take the chance of maybe losing their descendants’ Afrikaner cultural identity. Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, stated on Saturday that the cost of it was just too great.

NATIONALITY

The Solidarity Movement, which claims to represent over 600,000 Afrikaner families and 2 million persons and comprises AfriForum and Solidarity labor union, has made a pledge to South Africa.

“We love our nation, even though we may not agree with the ANC. Like every community, some people want to leave, but the Movement stated that repatriating Afrikaner refugees was not a solution for them.

Trump’s invitation was also turned down by officials from Orania, an Afrikaner-only community in the center of the nation.

“Being refugees is not what Africans want. “We cherish and are dedicated to our homeland,” Orania declared.

Since apartheid ended, South Africa has never used force to seize land that belonged to white people.

Trump’s suggestion was still praised by some.

Bothasig carpenter Werner van Niekerk, 57, said, “I think it’s a very nice gesture from Donald Trump to offer us asylum over there,” without mentioning if he would be moving to the United States.

Some found the humorous side.

“I have a few questions: is there an Afrikanership test? Is membership in AfriForum required? … Will Elon contribute some initial funding on the other side? Well… Author Pieter du Toit, who was alluding to Trump advisor and South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk, wrote on X, “Are there bakkies (pick-up trucks) in the U.S.?”