The executive order of the president of the United States provides resettlement for Afrikaners who are victims of unfair racial discrimination. “
The offer of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to reset “From the government of the black majority on the native soil.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday to reduce American aid to South Africa, citing an expropriation law that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month with the aim of repairing the inequalities of the earth that come from the history of white supremacy of South Africa .
Trump's order provided resettlement in the United States of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unfair racial discrimination” as refugees.
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of the first Dutch and French settlers, owners of most cultivation lands in the country.
“If you have no problem here, why would you want to go?” Neville Van Der Merwe, a 78 -year -old pensioner in Bothasig, near Cape Cabo.
“There has been nothing really bad [people] Taking charge of our land, people continue as normal and you know, what are you going to do there? “
The law signed by Ramaphosa seeks to address the disparities of ownership of the racial land, which have left the three quarters of private land in South Africa in the hands of the white minority, facilitating that the State expres land in public interest.
Ramaphosa has defended politics.
Whites represent 7.2 percent of the 63 million South Africa population, as shown in the statistics agency data. The data does not break down how many are Afrikaners.
Before the independence of South Africa, its British colonial rulers delivered most of the whites to the whites. In 1950, the Apartheid National Party seized 85 percent of the land, forcing 3.5 million blacks from their homes.
The African National Congress (ANC) of Ramaphosa, the largest party in the ruling coalition, says that Trump is amplifying the erroneous information spread by Afriforum, a group led by Afrikaner.
The group, which pressed Trump's previous administration regarding his cause, said he was not assuming the offer.
“Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to risk potentially sacrificing the cultural identity of their descendants as Afrikaners. The price of that is simply too high, ”said CEO of Afriforum, Kallie Kriel on Saturday.
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Separately, the solidarity movement, which includes Afriforum and the solidarity union and said it represents some 600,000 Afrikaner families and two million people, expressed its commitment to South Africa.
“We can disagree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in any community, there are people who want to emigrate, but the repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us, ”said the Solidarity Movement.
The representatives of Orania, an Enclave only Afrikaner in the country's heart, also rejected Trump's offer.
“Afrikaners do not want to be refugees. We love and we are committed to our homeland, ”said Orania.
The land policies of South Africa since the end of apartheid have never involved the forced seizure of the white land.
Even so, some said they appreciated Trump's offer.
“I think it is a very pleasant gesture of Donald Trump to offer us asylum there,” said Werner van Niekerk, 57, carpenter in Bothasig, without saying if he would be migrating to the United States.
Others saw the fun side.
“Some questions: Is there a test to determine your Afrikanership? Should you maintain Afriforum's membership? … Elon will help with some starting cash on the other side? … Are there bakkies (trucks) in the United States? ”, Author Pieter Du Toit wrote in X, referring to the billionaire born in South Africa and Trump Elon Musk assistant, who accused the Ramaphosa government of“ openly racist property laws ”.
