A group of 49 white South Africans will arrive outside of Washington at Dulles International Airport on Monday after offering a refugee status as part of a new Trump administration program.
Refugee groups have wondered why the white South Africans are prioritized in front of people from the war and natural disasters. Checking the refugee status in the USA often takes years.
The Trump administration quickly trained its applications, while holding other refugee programs and stopping the arrivals from Afghanistan, Iraq, most Africa south of the Sahara and other countries in a step in court. An app developed by the previous US government that contributes to relieving the displacement at the border and used my many asylum seekers from Latin America was also discontinued by the White House.
They are the first African-one white minority group in South Africa, after Trump issued an executive regulation on February 7, in which the black government of South Africa has accused them of and announced a program to offer them the move to America.
According to the Trump government, the South African government is pursuing a new law that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed this year and that some farmers could theoretically expropriate the country without compensation.
Three quarters of the private country of South Africa is still in white and has not taken a single expropriation. The democratic alliance, one of several government coalition partners, has questioned the legality of the new law in court.
In addition, Trump first seemed to be taken away from the white farmers during his first presidency in 2018 when an update of the laws on apartheid in South Africa was only considered.
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The South African government said that Africans – who are the descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers – are “among the economically privileged” of the country. There are around 2.7 million Africans among the 62 million inhabitants of South Africa, which is more than 80 percent black.
They are only part of the white minority of the country, but the Trump Administration refugee program only offers a move to Africans, which are largely seen as conservative and Christian values that could correspond to the policy of Trump administration.
According to the review of the political economy, an international academic journal, the average white budget in South Africa has 20 times the average black household.
The unemployment rate for black South Africans in the fourth quarter of 2024 was 35.8 percent, compared to 6.7 percent for white South Africans and 14 percent for demographic as Indian or Asian people. In the northwestern province, which is more than 90 percent black, the unemployment rate in the country was highest with 41 percent.
“A refugee is someone who has to leave his country for fear of political persecution, religious persecution or economic persecution, and they do not fit this calculation, they don’t fit this description,” said Ramaphosa on Monday, while he took part in the Africa CEO forum on the Ivory Coast.
Trump insists that breed no factor
Trump and his advisor Elon Musk, born in South Africa, also claim that Africans are targeted in some rural communities in racially motivated attacks.
“It is a genocide that you don’t want to write about,” said Trump in the White House of a group of reporters on Monday.
This controversial assertion of a white genocide was rejected by a judge who characterized it as “clearly imagined” in a top -class case, and the statistics for violent crime also provide no supporting evidence nationwide.
According to Africa and African Group, there were 49 murders for farm in 2023 and recorded agricultural attacks. This number actually dropped from 2013 to 2017 when between 62 and 72 such murders were found every year.
The country’s Minister of Police contested the Afriforum balance overall and said that he did not correlate with information that the Federal Government received from police stations. He also suggested that the total of murders of land employees who are often black are included.
Overall, South Africa is plagued by fatal violence, whereby more than 23,000 murders have been proographic annually in the past four years. In view of the country’s demography and poverty statistics, a significant percentage of victims is black.
“The idea of the white victim indicates that bad things that happen with white people are infinitely worse than the same things that happen to anyone else,” said Nicky Falkof, head of the Center for Diversity Studies at the University of Witwater Rand. “When white white people happen, it is not just crime, it is a targeted racial population.”
Trump insisted whether it was white or black farmers: “It makes me no difference for me, but white farmers are brutally killed and their country is confiscated.”
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Case against Israel another sticking point
The new US government criticized the South African government within a few days, and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced that he would not take part in a G20 meeting of the Foreign Minister in Johannesburg in February.
This city houses the G20 summit in November.
“I can’t go on how we can go unless this situation is well -kept,” said Trump.
In addition to its position on the rural state law, the US government was annoyed by South Africa, in which a genocide against the US allied Israel was housed in Gaza about the implementation of his military campaign, which was triggered by attacks by the militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The International Court of Justice has instructed Israel to take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza Strip, but stopped ordering a ceasefire in its provisional emergency regulation in the case introduced by South Africa.
The South African government said, although there was no justification for being relocated, she respected her freedom of choice and could not stop her.
In 2018, the Australian government also took into account African farmers, which was quickly pursued, and triggered a diplomatic spit with South Africa. The plan never came into play.
