The White Cross Monument outside Pietersburg
In just a few hours, 17,000 South Africans have contacted the South African Chamber of Commerce USA after President Trump signed an Executive Order granting Afrikaners refugee status. Many Afrikaners are calling for help to protect their 400-year-old community in South Africa. Elon Musk called to declare “Kill the Boer” singer Julius Malema “an international criminal.”
ORANIA: Our request to Trump can be summarized in three words: pic.twitter.com/rlUiQ5yLhU
— Joost Strydom (@StrydomJoost) February 8, 2025
The mayor of Afrikaner community Orania, Joost Strydom, said, “We are very thankful, specifically for the urgency with which this was tackled in regards to land expropriation.”
“However, our plea can be summarized in three words: Help us here. Not necessarily with US tax dollars, but with the recognition of our legitimate pursuit: Afrikaner self-determination in an autonomous region. Recognizing us as an ethnic people leads to a conclusion: that the only solution for Afrikaners is an autonomous area. … Our highest ambition is not to be resettled or relocated, it is freedom. We ask the White House to recognize this, and extend that wish to all other nations.”
ORANIA’S MESSAGE TO TRUMP
Orania Movement wants to get in touch with media and members of the Trump admin.
Help us get recognition for an Afrikaner territory!
joost@orania.co.za pic.twitter.com/hIXpRxmgBr
— Joost Strydom (@StrydomJoost) February 10, 2025
“After the Trump Executive Order, Orania sent a simple message to the Trump administration,” Joost Strydom said in a follow-up video:
“We don’t want US tax dollars, what we want is recognition of our autonomous territory for Afrikaners in South Africa where we can make decisions for ourselves. We got a storm of local media requests here in South Africa, but we want to reach American outlets and representatives of the American government. If you can help us, get us in touch with mainstream or alternative media, please share this video.”
This is a heartbreaking story about the unfair treatment of the white population in South Africa. I hope and pray they receive the support and help they need.
.@POTUS .@realDonaldTrump .@DanScavino @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/YJq7N3k4UY
— (@Ann_Lilyflower) February 9, 2025
Several tribal regions within South Africa have achieved independence, such as the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland. Under the Apartheid regime, Homeland areas such as Ciskei, Transkei, KwaZulu, Bophuthatswana, Venda and others functioned as autonomous regions with generous self-rule.
With the failure of the corrupt ANC government, rampant crime, violence, and infrastructural collapse, there has been mounting support for independence of the Cape Region. The Afrikaner Solidarity Union movement has proposed creating autonomous regions for South Africa’s Afrikaner ethnic minority.
MK leader Andile Mngxitama: “If they kiII one of us, we kiII five whites. We will kiII the chiIdren, women, and dogs”
0 international outrage pic.twitter.com/DS1ZZ0UZmI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 9, 2025
There were 23 farm attacks and 2 farm murders in South Africa in January 2025, according to South Africa Today. In 2024, there were 283 farm attacks and 28 farm murders.
Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, posted samples of black leaders in South Africa such as Andile Mngxitama of the newly formed UMkhonto WeSizwe Party, calling for farm murders (“Plassmoorde”).
This genocidal lunatic is the leader of a significant political party in the South African parliament https://t.co/YKRgjdlW2p
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025
Musk also posted an older speech by the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, Julius Malema, calling to “cut the throat of whiteness.”
Musk urged “immediate sanctions for Malema and declaration of him as an international criminal!”
Malema is known for singing the “Struggle Song” Kill the Boer, including in front of 90,000 EFF supporters 2023, often followed by a spate of farm attacks. The South African Equality Court found that “Kill the Boer” is “not hate speech” 2022.
Immediate sanctions for Malema and declaration of him as an international criminal! https://t.co/KLwfsp9c2j
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
“I really think you have entirely lost your left brain: a typical spoiled brat and direct beneficiary of Apartheid whiteness,” Malema responded. “I know black people look the same to you, typical racist. Look closer, and you will realize those are two different people. America is exposing us to its stupidity. I don’t care about your sanctions; I will never stop fighting for black people to be equal to white people, and if that makes me an international criminal, I am proud to be one.”
While many claim there were no land grabs going on in South Africa, AfriForum Community Safety Spokesman Jacques Broodryk outlined the land invasions and land grabs that have taken place in South Africa.
The US Mission in South Africa issued a statement, “Addressing Human Rights Violations in South Africa:”
On Friday, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to address serious human rights violations occurring in South Africa.
As encapsulated in its recent land confiscation act to seize disfavored citizens’ property without compensation, the government of South Africa blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority descendants of settler groups.
As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country.
The United States will establish a plan to resettle disfavored minorities in South Africa discriminated against because of their race as refugees.
STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION:
President Donald J. Trump is committed to holding South Africa accountable for its actions.
South Africa has taken positions against the United States and its allies.
Merely two months after the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, South Africa accused Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice.
South Africa also strengthened ties with Iran, which supports terrorism globally.
While championing terrorism and autocratic regimes abroad, South Africa has committed similar human rights violations at home. The recent Expropriation Act enables the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority descendants of settler groups’ agricultural property without compensation.
The Expropriation Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.
Years ago, the South African government disbanded volunteer forces defending rural farmers, turning a blind eye to the ensuing farm attacks.
REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS: A commitment to human rights is central to President Trump’s America First agenda.
President Trump: “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people very badly […] I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
President Trump believes in sending a clear message to the world’s bad actors—and to their victims—by condemning human rights abuses in no uncertain terms.
Willem Petzer: Over 90% of EXPROPRIATED farms have failed under new black beneficiaries.
Solidarity Movement spokesman Jaco Kleynhans issued a statement “What about Refugee Status?”
What about refugee status?
Since Saturday morning, South Africa has been buzzing about US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order in which he halts financial aid to South Africa, condemns various elements of South Africa’s domestic and foreign policy and then offers refugee…
— Jaco Kleynhans (@JacoKleynhans) February 10, 2025
Since Saturday morning, South Africa has been buzzing about US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order in which he halts financial aid to South Africa, condemns various elements of South Africa’s domestic and foreign policy and then offers refugee status specifically to Afrikaners.
Since Saturday, a huge number of uninformed opinions have been raised about this.
So first just five points that are very important about the context and then five things about refugee status:
1. President Donald Trump’s executive order breaks open years of behind-the-door whispering about the relationship between South Africa and the USA. I already saw the writing on the wall during my visit to Washington DC (about AGOA) in November 2024. There was a long lead-up to this and any good analyst will realise that geopolitical currents, the SA government’s diplomatic missteps, pressure from groups and individuals in South Africa but also internationally and ultimately Donald Trump’s ability to break taboos and do what his instincts tell him is right, led to the events of the past week.
2. I have been engaging with the Americans for two decades. The level of knowledge about South Africa among advisors, especially on the Republican side of Congress, is much better than most people expect. For the past few years I have been in discussions with several advisors every year. Last November in a conversation with someone who was already busy preparing Executive Orders for Trump, it was clear that South Africa would form part of his global realignment operation. South Africa’s case against Israel and South Africa’s close ties with Iran, China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela were the drivers for this.
3. However, it has also been striking in the past year or two how well informed many of these advisers, many of whom now work in the White House, are about events in South Africa. In November, during a meeting where I wanted to talk about AGOA, I was asked about the Bela Act within the first minute. Genuine concern about South Africa’s increasing racial discrimination, the rollout of the left-wing socialist national democratic revolution which is really just a code word for central control, the alienation of minorities, the huge implications of state capture, corruption and a failed state and the crime problem which also includes the ongoing wave of farm attacks, have all contributed to the Trump administration’s actions against South Africa.
4. The people who drafted the Executive order, as well as other people in Donald Trump’s inner circle, his Secretary of State and Trump himself, are genuinely concerned about South Africa and genuinely concerned about the future of Afrikaners. For this, one can be grateful. A strong focus on South Africa and a genuine concern is what we have been asking for for years.
5. The solutions that I proposed to the Americans in November include a series of actions to expand trade with South Africa (such as not only renewing AGOA but expanding it to more products and thereby promoting the free market and strengthening the private sector in South Africa), helping to strengthen civil society through platforms, access to resources and space to influence policy, clear criticism and statements on issues where South Africa is on the wrong path and finally concrete support for minorities (such as Afrikaners) in terms of safety, language rights, education, culture, heritage protection, economic opportunities, etc.
Refugee Status
Ultimately, the drafters of the Executive Order decided to grant Afrikaners refugee status in America. Here are five important points:
1. The most important thing is to realize that the Trump administration is the first American government in decades to directly refer to Afrikaners again at the highest level and therefore view Afrikaners as a significant role player, not only in South Africa, but also in geopolitics. This is a huge breakthrough in itself. Afrikaners are now central to the global power struggle. This holds many opportunities, but even greater risks. Easy populist statements, verbal battles, ideological tirades, etc. are not going to help us here. Leadership, strategies, the means to implement strategies, wisdom and good communication are the keys to unlocking this re-entry of the Afrikaner on the global chessboard.
2. Refugee status is just one practical way in which the Trump administration can reach out to Afrikaners. Applying for refugee status offers an opportunity for some people, but for most Afrikaners it cannot be a solution due to their economic position, etc. So no one can, and no one at Solidarity (where I am head of public relations) has tried to say in the past three days that refugee status cannot be an option for anyone. But it can’t be a solution for everyone. What is important is that people understand what this offer entails. The media claiming that we said NO THANK YOU is simply dishonest. That people fall for it is naive.
3. Refugee status is defined internationally on the basis of various charters, but countries largely determine their own policies on this. The Executive Order signed by President Trump refers to a plan that has yet to be drawn up according to which refugee status will be regulated. In the latest wording published this morning, it refers to “disfavored minorities”. No one can apply for refugee status until this plan has been announced and approved. So you cannot apply for refugee status yet.
4. Refugee status should not be confused with residency or even citizenship. Refugee status is granted to oppressed groups. It is mostly temporary and is strictly regulated. When you are granted refugee status in the US (as in most other Western countries), it takes place within a very strict context of residence arrangements, concessions to work, travel, etc. You are therefore placed in housing specifically for refugees. You cannot just do any job – this will be determined by the refugee plan. You will also not be able to just get on a plane a month or six later to visit your sick parents or attend a funeral. There is also no guarantee that you will be able to live in the US forever. The next US government could phase out or cancel this specific refugee plan, which would mean that you would be deported to South Africa.
5. The offer of refugee status should therefore be approached soberly. It is not a broad and general scheme of residency or citizenship. It can be an option for people who are truly suffering, have lost everything, have been through severe trauma (such as violent crimes) and many other cases. In such cases, as with the thousands of people who have emigrated to the USA in recent years, people’s personal decisions must be respected and they must be supported with empathy. However, it is exaggerated, premature and cowardly to claim that thousands of Afrikaners will simply soon flock to the USA and be able to live there permanently. For that, we must first wait for the plan that is now being drawn up by the Trump administration.
Solidarity represents hundreds of thousands of people (especially Afrikaners) across South Africa. Our members live, work, fight and build every day with a complex combination of challenges in this beautiful country of ours. There is no single quick and easy solution to the challenges of our people or even the challenges of South Africa. Therefore, Trump’s criticism of South Africa’s domestic and foreign policy must be welcomed. His opening of a door to Afrikaners as a unique people who have made a global impact over more than a century cannot go unnoticed. A general rejection of South Africa is unrealistic. To think that two million people should resettle in the USA is unworkable. We are here to stay. The future of Afrikaners is in South Africa, but always with the knowledge that there will be continuous opportunities for our people to live and work abroad, sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently. We must approach this with great sensitivity and respect.
Great message Jason. pic.twitter.com/alGyrh6l0Y
— Boer (@twatterbaas) February 9, 2025
AfriForum: Trump signs executive order on South Africa,cutting financial aid to SA
Political scientist Dr. Frans Cronje on Trump vs. the ANC:
pic.twitter.com/YuAu4yTnbJ
— BAC (@TMFBAC) February 9, 2025
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