'No thanks': White South Africans turn down Trump's immigrat

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'No thanks': White South Africans turn down Trump's immigration offer


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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his 2025 State of the Nation Address in Cape Town, South Africa, February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab


Summary
Trump offers to resettle white South Africans in the US
South Africa's land reform policy one of the contentious issues

South Africa's Ramaphosa has defended the land reform law

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as even right-wing white lobby groups want to "tackle the injustices" of Black majority rule on home soil.

Trump on Friday signed an executive order to cut U.S. aid to South Africa, citing an expropriation act that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month aiming to redress land inequalities that stem from South Africa's history of white supremacy.

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The order provided for resettlement in the U.S. of "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination" as refugees.
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own most of the country's farmland.
"If you haven't got any problems here, why would you want to go," said Neville van der Merwe, a 78-year-old pensioner in Bothasig near Cape Town.
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"There hasn't been any really bad taking over our land, the people are carrying on like normal and you know, what are you going to do over there?"
The law seeks to address racial land ownership disparities - which has left three-quarters of privately owned land in the hands of the white minority - by making it easier for the state to expropriate land in the public interest.
Ramaphosa has defended the policy.
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White people represent 7.2% of South Africa's population of 63 million, statistics agency data shows. The data does not breakdown how many are Afrikaner.
South Africa's British rulers handed most farmland to whites. In 1950, the Apartheid-era National Party seized 85% of the land, forcing 3.5 million Black people from their homes.
Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC), the biggest party in the ruling coalition, says Trump is amplifying misinformation propagated by AfriForum, an Afrikaner-led group.
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The group, which lobbied Trump's previous administration on their cause, said it was not taking up the offer.
"Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to risk potentially sacrificing their descendants' cultural identity as Afrikaners. The price for that is simply too high," AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said on Saturday.
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Separately, the Solidarity Movement - which includes AfriForum and Solidarity trade union and said it represents about 600,000 Afrikaner families and 2 million individuals - expressed commitment to South Africa.

"We may disagree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in any community, there are individuals who wish to emigrate, but repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us," the Movement said.
Representatives of Orania, an Afrikaner-only enclave in the heart of the country, also rejected Trump's offer.
"Afrikaners do not want to be refugees. We love and are committed to our homeland," Orania said.
South Africa's land policies since the end of apartheid have never involved forced seizure of white-owned land.
Still, some said they appreciated Trump's offer.
"I think it's a very nice gesture from Donald Trump to offer us asylum over there," said Werner van Niekerk, 57, a carpenter in Bothasig, without saying whether he would be migrating to America.
Others saw the funny side.
"Some questions: is there a test to determine your Afrikanership? Must you hold AfriForum membership? ... Will Elon help with some startup cash on the other side? ... Are there bakkies (pick-up trucks) in the U.S.?", author Pieter du Toit wrote on X, referring to South African-born billionaire and Trump aide Elon Musk.
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Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Catherine Schenck; Additional reporting by Nqobile Dludla in Johannesburg and Shafiek Tassiem in Cape Town Editing by Tim Cocks and Giles Elgood

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Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo is the Reuters Southern Africa Bureau Chief. Before her appointment as bureau chief, she reported on the broader economy, including currency and bond markets and monetary policy decisions, and on mining and commodities.

[Scraper]

有特权有本事的在南非活得好好的，一去美国，啥都没有，从上流下降到不入流，其它的更加没有前途，来美国多半也是与白垃圾厮混吸毒吃福利偷鸡摸狗作死。

[lobster110]

有特权有本事的在南非活得好好的，一去美国，啥都没有，从上流下降到不入流，其它的更加没有前途，来美国多半也是与白垃圾厮混吸毒吃福利偷鸡摸狗作死。

南非剩下的白人好多是农场主。南非政府想分他们的地。

[DonnieTrump]

要继续分地，不要让白皮跑了。