President Donald Trump has accused Pretoria of “genocide”.
The first group of white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday after President Donald Trump offered them a safe haven from what he described as “genocide.” The government in Pretoria has firmly denied Trump’s claims that it is discriminating against the country’s white minority or condoning attacks on white farmers.
State Department officials welcomed 59 individuals – including small children – at an airport hangar outside Washington, D.C. “I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years,” said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. He added, “Many of these folks have experience with threatening invasions of their homes, their farms, and a real lack of interest or success of the government in doing anything about this situation.”
The U.S. had previously granted asylum to 54 Afrikaners – the descendants of Dutch colonists – who make up about 7% of South Africa’s population.
Today @DeputySecState welcomed the first group of Afrikaner refugees fleeing persecution from their native South Africa. We stand with these refugees, many of them farmers and former business owners, as they build a better future for themselves and their children here in the… pic.twitter.com/W16RJSU3tB
— Department of State (@StateDept) May 12, 2025
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to fast-track naturalization for white South Africans. “Because they’re being killed, and we don’t want to see people be killed,” Trump said. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place.”
He also accused the media of remaining silent about what he called a campaign against white farmers, saying, “If it were the other way around, that would be the only story they’d talk about.”
Trump’s claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa were echoed by his ally, billionaire Elon Musk, who was born in Pretoria.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dismissed Trump’s allegations as “completely false.” Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola stated, “There is no data at all that backs that there is persecution of white South Africans, or white Afrikaners in particular, who are farmers.”
Pretoria has drawn international attention since passing a controversial law in January permitting the expropriation of land – most of which is owned by white farmers – without compensation. The government has framed the measure as a corrective to apartheid-era disparities in land ownership.
Presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya stated that the state “may not expropriate property arbitrarily or for a purpose other than… in the public interest.”
At least they got out with their lives, but if I had had the choice, I would have picked Russia.
That could happen here in the future, but with the twist being from a minority part Maori population against a majority non-part Maori population, because we didn’t, over the last 50 years, hold our governments to account and stop introduced apartheid acts, statutes and policies into legislation.
Those in Marlborough are going to find out soon enough that insurance companies are not giving home insurance for this area and this also covers Blenheim. Natural hazard area, expensive waterfront homes are going to become worthless, those with a mortgage need home insurance. This is all down to councils using the Jacomb report which should not of been used to make a policy with but of course they all have. A worst case scenario report on sea level rise in 100 years time.
Yes. Russia has been taking them for some time, and conservative Americans and Canadians as well.
Amazing hearing the international left and mainstream media suddenly filled with impotent seething rage at refugees seeking a better future for their children.
Almost as if they just hate white people. Almost.