The US President’s executive regulation again sees Africans “the victims are of unjust racial discrimination”.
The offer of the American president, Donald Trump, white South African as refugees before persecution, may not blaze the rush that he expects because the right-wing white lobby groups “want to approach the injustices of the black majority on domestic soil.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday to reduce the US help for South Africa, and undercut an expropriation law that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month to remove land on the history of white dominance in South Africa.
Trump’s command saw a resettlement in the United States in front of “Africans in South Africa, who are victims of unjustified racial discrimination as refugees.
Africans are mainly white descendants of former Dutch and French settlers who own the majority of the country’s farmland.
“If you have no problems here, why do you want to go?” Neville van der Merwe, a 78-year-old pensioner in Bothasig near Cape Town.
“There were no really bad (people) who have taken over our country, people continue as usual and you know what will you do over there?”
The law signed by Ramaphosa tries to remedy the inequalities of the racial ownership of three quarters in private ownership in South Africa in the hands of the White Minority by facilitating the state in public interest to the state.
Ramaphosa defended the guideline.
The white people are 7.2 percent of the South African population of 63 million inhabitants, as the data of the statistics authority show. The data does not break down how many Africans are.
Before the independence of South Africa, his British colonial rulers presented most of the farmland to white. In 1950 the National Party of the Apartheid era confiscated 85 percent of the country and forced 3.5 million blacks from its houses.
Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), the largest party in the governing coalition, says Trump reinforced the misinformations propagated by Afriforum.
The group, which Trump’s former administration used in terms of their cause, said they did not accept the offer.
“Emigration only offers the opportunity for Africans who are willing to sacrifice the cultural identity of their descendants as Africans. The price for this is just too high, ”said Kallie Kriel, CEO of Afriforum, on Saturday.
Hometown
Regardless of this, the solidarity movement, which includes and indicates Afriforum and the Solidarity Union of representing around 600,000 African families and two million people – pressed the commitment to South Africa.
“We may not agree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in every community, there are people who want to emigrate, but the return of Africans as refugees is not a solution for us, ”said the solidarity movement.
Representatives of Orania, an enclave only Africans, also rejected Trump’s offer.
“Africans don’t want to be refugees. We love and get involved in our home, ”said Orania.
South Africa’s agricultural policy has never participated in the forced confiscation of white ownership areas since the end of apartheid.
Nevertheless, some said they appreciated Trump’s offer.
“I think it’s a very nice gesture from Donald Trump to offer us asylum there,” said Werner van Niekerk, 57, a carpenter in Bothasig, without saying whether he would hike to the USA.
Others saw the funny side.
“Some questions: Is there a test to determine your African? Do you have to hold an Afriforum membership? … will Elon help on the other side with a start -up bar money? … are there bakkies in the USA (pick-up trucks)? “, The author Pieter Du Toit wrote about X and refers”.
