Afrikaners Seeking US Asylum Leave Behind a Deeply Divided Country

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The head of South Africaโ€™s largest agricultural association said white-owned farms are frequently invaded โ€˜by local politicians and radical groups.โ€™

JOHANNESBURGโ€”President Donald Trumpโ€™s decision to allow white Afrikaners to seek asylum in the United States from state-sponsored โ€œracial discrimination,โ€ โ€œhateful rhetoric,โ€ and โ€œdisproportionate violenceโ€ in South Africa has not gone down well in some quarters.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as โ€œcowards,โ€ according to the BBC.

On May 22, during a meeting with Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, Trump presented what he said was evidence of this.

Showing printouts of news articles and footage of South African extremists calling for white farmers to be killed, Trump repeated the allegation that the South African government is confiscating white-owned land.

When Ramaphosa denied this, Trump maintained: โ€œYou do allow them to take landโ€”and then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them.

โ€œYouโ€™re taking peopleโ€™s land away from them, and those people, in many cases, are being executed. Theyโ€™re being executed, and they happen to be white.โ€

The U.S. State Department has said it will continue to welcome Afrikaners who are โ€œvictims of unjust racial discriminationโ€ and โ€œable to articulate a past experience of persecution or fear of future persecution.โ€

South Africaโ€™s International Relations Minister, Ronald Lamola, told The Epoch Times that Trump and his administration are โ€œtotally misguidedโ€ in offering asylum to Afrikaners.

โ€œWho can provide proof of any persecution of a specific race in South Africa?โ€ he asked. โ€œThereโ€™s no proof. Thereโ€™s no type of persecution or discrimination against any whites in South Africa.โ€

The Epoch Times has been told by a source connected to the U.S. Embassy in Johannesburg that many of the 8,000 Afrikaner applications for asylum reviewed so far contain โ€œhorrific detailsโ€ of crimes committed against them or their close relatives.

โ€œThey believe these crimes happened to them because they are white,โ€ said the source, requesting anonymity because he did not have permission to speak with the media.

โ€œThese crimes were documented in cases opened by the South African police, and in many cases the perpetrators have never been found. These people canโ€™t get any information about whatโ€™s happened to their cases. It appears there have been no investigations.โ€

Byย Darren Taylor

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