Pretoria, South Africa “Thanks Trump, we’re coming.” So read Hanli Groenewald and Stefan butitenndag in a demonstration sheet.
The couple shows their minds in Pretoria in front of the US Embassy.
Their message has been addressed to the US President For Donald Trump. According to Trump discrimination Africans. That’s why he offers “African refugees” the opportunity to settle in the United States.
Africans are especially white offspring of Dutch immigrants who have come to the country hundreds of years. There are a few million people of 62 million people in South Africa.
-It seems that corruption and the rest have ruined South Africa. It would be a good idea for us to move to a better country that can offer us and our children a brighter future, BUTEENDAG says.
The couple with their desire to depart represents a very small minority.
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Trump has been drastically cutting off the USA. In addition, he has announced that he will suspend help in South Africa. The country received $ 440 million from the United States in 2023.
Trump has not paid attention to South Africa by chance.
Trump’s close ally Elon Musk Born and grown in South Africa.
Trump is particularly up to two things. First of all, the fact that South Africa made an action to the International Court of Justice, according to which the nearby ally of the United States, Israel, has committed genocide in Gaza.
Another thing is the President of South Africa Cyril Ramphosan The law approved by January. It allows the country to expire the country in certain exceptional cases without compensation if the public interest so requires. For example, the country should be out of use.
Trump’s administration by South Africa is “blatantly” Africaners in the new way. Musk again is accused land from “open racist ownership laws”.
Land ownership is a delicate issue in South Africa. Blacks still own the agricultural land only a quartereven though the breed separation ended more than 30 years ago. They are from the people 81 percent, white seven.
Trump is spoken Also, large -scale violence against white farmers. Musk, on the other hand, has communicated that South Africa encourages the genocide of whites. Musk grabbed to the incident of 2023where a left -wing party leader shouted his supporters, repeating the words of the old “Kill the Boer” song referring to white farmers.
South African statistics They report that nearly 7,000 people were murdered in South Africa in October-December last year. 12 of them died in attacks on farms. One of them was a space owner.
Demonstrators: Laws unfair, we are discriminated against
In the Pretorian demonstration, several people interviewed by EPN felt that Africans or whites were discriminated against or that the laws were unfair.
“I’m here to support other South Africans who oppose corruption and discrimination of whites,” said 24 Nicholas Duvenhage.
27-year-old Rhyhard botha Again, he wondered why he had to “suffer from injustice” because of the injustices of the past.
Duvenhage and the beginning of the video Laulcie Geldenhuys The South African government’s Black Economic Empowerment (Bee) policy highlighted the South African government. Its aim is to increase the economic potential of non -whites. In the company There must be a certain share of blacks, and companies and the public sector must have a certain quota for black workers.
Prestigious Economist magazine In practice, Bee has enriched the black elite and increased business costs.
Musk’s businesses have also come across politics. His negotiations on the expansion of StarlLink, which offers satellite intermediate connections to South Africa, is on the ice.
Participants in the demonstration do not represent the majority of Africaners, says Assistant Professor William Gumede.
Gumede sets his words in accurately commenting on whether South Africa is discriminated against by Africaners.
– I disagree that one group in particular would be discriminated against. Here it is felt that the Anc party marginalized minorities when it held power, Gumede says.
As a legacy of breeding years, people are still separated in South Africa. Other minorities are so -called colored and Indian and Asians.
In practice, Anc held political power in the country since 1994 until last year’s elections.
The differences in the standard of white and black are clear. At the end of last year of black The unemployed were about 36 % And about 7 % of whites. In 2023 White households earned an average of almost five times more than black households.
In Gumede’s opinion, South Africa must take Trump seriously.
According to him, the Anc party has been warned many years ago of the dangers of anti-American anti-American.
He is now in danger that the Trump administration will also withdraw from an AGOA trade agreement that is important to South Africa. It would have a broad impact on the economy and would also hit white farmers.
“We are on the verge of a financial crisis unless we can find out this dispute with Trump’s administration,” says Gumede.
Politics is not interested in a soup kitchen keeper
Johannesburg outside the slum Elize Saunders is not interested in going to the United States.
Saunders run a soup kitchen in Krugensdorp, which offers daily food for 150-200 children and 50 elderly people. The soup kitchen runs with the support of an external financier.
Saunders is a low -income white South African and speaks Africa.
-In South Africa, it feels cozy. I’m happy here, Saunders says.
Congratulations that he can help others. Saunder says more in the video below.
– I knew since I was little that I can’t find a job. Mom took me out of school when I was 14, says Saunders.
However, Saunders feels that he has not been discriminated against.
He has heard that others have happened. It is because of such nasty things that he does not like politics or follow the news.