Refugee admissions to the United States have stopped almost, wait for a group, or a “small subset”, as the Secretary of State Frame Rubio called them on Tuesday: Afrikaners. They are members of the white ethnic minority who once led the brutal apartheid regime of four decades in South Africa, which ended in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela as president.
The Trump administration has already welcomed the First group either Afrikaner asylum applicantsWho were given a refugee status issued after stating that they were victims of violence and discrimination in South Africa.
Other Afrikaner are waiting, eager to take advantage of the offer of a special treatment of the Trump administration to obtain a protected state and the right to live and work in the United States.
These applicants have gathered to share information about the process, including Dolf Grobler, which he has already requested. The professional hunter told CBS News that he has $ 2.5 million to help the United States be great again.
“I worry that the genocide, which focuses mainly on white farmers, extends,” he said. He Claim of a white genocide It is one that President Trump’s advisor, Elon Musk, whose family is Afrikaners, has supported.
The musk joined Mr. Trump in the White House on Wednesday as an American leader He received the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa For an official visit. The Afrikaner refugee program was a topic of discussion, together with commerce and other issues. At the Oval Office meeting, Ramaphosa backed Trump’s repeated statements that the whites were attacked.
“Those people in many cases are being executed, executing, and are white, and most are farmers,” Trump said, and described the situation “something opposed to apartheid.”
“The people who are killed, unfortunately, through criminal activities, are not only white. Most of them are black people,” Ramaphosa said.
According to the South African police, in the last three months of 2024, 12 people were killed in farms there; One was a white farmer, while the others were black workers or security workers. When asked if he believed that life for him and his family was better under apartheid, an openly racist minority rule system than the rights of equal right to the majority of the fixed black population of South Africa did not doubt.
“Yes,” he told CBS News. “I can’t say in my heart that we are better now.” Altheheh admitted that apartheid was wrong.
The claims of a white genocide often circulate on right -wing groups, but opinion is not a hero widely within the Afrikaner community.
Commentator Afrikaner Piet Croump, an academic at the Northwest University of South Africa, says the statements are simply false.
“There are no signs of this, it never has a bone. In fact, whites are economically the strongest group” in South Africa, Croump to CBS News told CBS. “64% of All Boardrooms in South Africa Are Still White. The Average Draeds of White South Africans are Vastly Higher Than Black South Africans … they have Better Schools, They have Better Education, Private Health Care. This is the Land of Milk and the Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and The Land of Milk and the Earth of Milk and Earth of Milk and Earth of Milk and Health. ” “” “”
Croump suspects that South African governments Strong posture against Israel’s actions in Gazaand STIS Relationships with ChinaHe could have played some role in Mr. Trump’s decision to adopt the controversial amnesty program for Afrikaners, but he believes there is more.
“In South Africa, the right -wing groups, the so -called civil society groups, we know that they have access to the Trump administration because they claim that. And in recent days, several times, they have said they will talk to the US government, as if they have access to them.”
To the questioned about the refugee program on Tuesday in Capitol Hill, in an irritable exchange with Democratic Senator Tim Kaine in Virginia, the Rubio Secretary of State insisted that the foreign policy of the United States “does not require a uniform life, implies prioritizing the interests of the United States.
White South Africans represent only about 7% of the country’s population, but still have more than half of their cultivation lands. And although the country has a high crime rate of internships, racial reasons are not generally a factor, according to Afrikaner cattle farmer Nick Serfontein.
He acknowledged that violent attacks are produced against farmers, as special in agricultural lands near large cities, where there are large and impoverished populations, but he generally said: “I feel safe. I sleep with my door on the farm.”
There are also accusations of legs that white farmers are victims of land expropriation, and the government takes over farms without providing compensation. In January, Ramaphosa signed measures in law to expropriate mostly unused land for public use, which the government said it was necessary to address the consequences of apartheid decades. Although the law establishes fair compensation in most cases, it also allows expropriation without compensation in limited circumstances. And any measure can be challenged in court.
Trump has argued that the owners of White Lands are unfairly addressed, he thought that the law does not mention the breed of anyone who can be affected under the legislet.
And what is more important, there is only one case of expression without documented compensation in the 31 years that Apartheid Asphe ended.
Serfontein argues that the problem is not a deliberate effort of the government to take white land without compensation, but “due to a dysfunctional government. The model is wrong.”
He said that for decades, the Earth has been delivered to a black population with compensation for the former owners under established rules, but without support to the new owners. Then, almost a decade ago, Serfontein helped launch a project aimed at new black farmers to work on Earth.
To date, he is that she is personally helps more than 700 young black farmers, the next generation of the country of agricultural workers.
“I am extremely positive, and young people, young people, young people, are positive,” he said.
As for a white genocide, he accelerated with Croump, saying bluntly: “It is not happening.”
Serfontein said he did not know the stories of the Afrikaners who had already left to the United States, and did not doubt that “they probably had some unhappy experiences in South Africa, about a series of things. But let me tell me that if you went to Nampo last week, the largest agricultural week of the farmers, the farmers of the farmers in the south of the southern hemisura.”
They want to grow in a country, says Serfontein, where most people understand that the earth must be shared by blacks and blacks.