The Long History of the U.S. Backing White South Africans

Afrikaners Seeking US Asylum Leave Behind a Deeply Divided Country

JOHANNESBURG—President Donald Trump’s decision to allow white Afrikaners to seek asylum in the United States from state-sponsored “racial discrimination,” “hateful rhetoric,” and “disproportionate violence” in South Africa has not gone down well in some quarters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as “cowards,” according to the BBC. On May 22, during a meeting with Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, Trump presented what he said wa…

Why Trump Is Braving Critics To Welcome White South Africans to the United States

One opponent expresses concern that the administration 'has chosen to fast-track the admission of Afrikaners, while actively fighting court orders to…

Afrikaners In South Africa: How They Got There And Why It Matters

Source: Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Afrikaners, the white ethnic group that ruled South Africa during apartheid until its end in 1994, have become a buzzing topic since President Trump granted a group of 59 Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S. due to “unjust racial discrimination” in their country, although Trump’s claims are questionable. Notably, white South Africans still hold 10 times the wealth of their  Black counterparts since aparthei…

The Long History of the U.S. Backing White South Africans

Last Monday, 49 white South Africans landed at Dulles airport in Washington D.C. They arrived under President Donald Trump’s newly created refugee pathway, aimed squarely at white Afrikaner farmers claiming racial “persecution.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Afrikaners—descendants of Dutch settlers of South Africa—have long painted themselves as victims of “reverse racism” and even “genocide” in post-apartheid South Africa. Trump amplified th…

Man fears becoming white phara if he moves to America as Afrikaner refugee in TikTok video

A TikTok vdieo shows a white South African speaking isiZulu to explain why he's not moving to America as a refugee. Online users were throughly amused.

In the United States, a fierce political and social controversy has arisen over the reception of a small group of white South African refugees. After the arrival of fewer than sixty Afrikaner refugees in Virginia, the discussion erupted in Congress, the media and within church organizations. The stakes: should skin color be a factor in refugee policy?