South Africa is perfectly safe for white people, right?
South Africans chant call to genocide against White people.
“Kill the boer, the farmer…”
This is the reason America is granting refuge to White South Africans.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 13, 2025
Here’s how Al Jazeera spins it:
“A myth popular on the far right”
In a press conference on Monday, Trump mirrored the claims of a myth popular on the far right that white people in South Africa have been subjected to systematic violence since the end of white minority rule in that country.
.@POTUS on South Africa: “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about… White farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated… And the newspapers, and the media, and the television media doesn’t even talk about it.” pic.twitter.com/kq68lneJd5
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025
Trump administration welcomes 59 white South Africans as refugees to the US
A group of 59 white Afrikaners from South Africa has arrived in the United States as part of a refugee programme set up by the administration of US President Donald Trump to offer sanctuary from what Trump has depicted as racial discrimination against white people.
Bill Frelick, refugee policy director with Human Rights Watch, said the fast-track process of bringing Afrikaners into the US was unprecedented.
Trump Rips Reporters for Refusing to Write About ‘Genocide’ in South Africa
President Donald Trump ripped legacy and establishment media reporters on Monday, saying they refuse to cover the “genocide” taking place against farmers in South Africa.
Trump’s comments came during an executive order signing in the Roosevelt Room, shortly before he set out for the Middle East for the week as the administration welcomes refugees who faced threats of land theft and racial discrimination at the hands of the South African government, according to the State Department.
Trump, whose tycoon ally Elon Musk was born in South Africa, said on February 7, 2025 the law signed in January would “enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation”.
It allows the government, as a matter of public interest, to decide on expropriations without compensation — but only in exceptional circumstances. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
Phoney Christians Protest
Episcopal Group Quits Refugee Program over White South African Arrivals
.@StephenM: “What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created… this is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty — and historically, it has been used that way.” pic.twitter.com/fZmgTYFEPS
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 9, 2025