The order provided for resettlement in the U.S. of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” as refugees.
The Great Reversal Has Arrived
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Harris Poll would ask the world if they believe Trump is insane. He want to move three million citizens around as of they were pawns.- with the help of Musk!
Trump wants to be leader of the White Exodus. Moses brought out 340,000, Donald will top him by bringing out 600,000 pure white folk – that want to stay where they are!. But, the Maya-Message is America should have been a White Only Colony of Britain, and, African Slaves should never have been brought here. How about Indigenous People that lived from the tip of Alaska to the tip of Chile?
Here’s the Dark Magic Maya of this offer, it garnishes more votes for Trump…..The Supreme Racist! He outdoes Hitler by demonizing USAID, and asking Elon Musk to fund the White Exodus of Foreigners! What this is is a Loyalty Check telling whites to be loyal to their race.
I am a Zulu Nazarite. My church in in South Africa. If Kamala was President, then the core of my cosmology would have come true. I suspect the Republicans stole the election – and are reading this blog, that may be dictated by an Angel of God!
John
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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- 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.
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.
HOMELAND
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
South Africa’s land act targets a stark divide, Trump and Musk oppose it
By Tim Cocks
February 9, 20258:10 AM PSTUpdated 5 hours ago
Item 1 of 7 Shadrack Maseko, whose family has been living on Meyerskop farm for three generations. Free State province, South Africa, February 9, 2025. REUTERS/Thando Hlophe
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- Summary
- Expropriation act gives government powers to redistribute land
- Private land mostly in white hands 30 years post-apartheid
- Rural Black people sometimes in conflict with whites
- Critics say act threatens basic property rights
FATENG TSE NTSHO, South Africa, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on all sides by vast tracts of mostly empty grassland owned by prosperous white farmers.
The contrast illustrates the gaping land inequalities that persist more than three decades after the end of white minority rule – and which an expropriation act President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month partly seeks to redress.
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That law, which allows the government to confiscate land – in rare cases without compensation – has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa’s southernmost tip ever since European settlers began arriving nearly four centuries ago.
For nervous owners, it is an assault on property rights, a view shared by U.S. President Donald Trump, who last week wrongly stated that land had already been seized under it when he threatened to cut aid to South Africa. On Saturday, the White House went so far as to offer white farmers resettlement in the United States and “humanitarian relief.”
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But the expanses of white-owned land in Free State province, dotted with tiny Black settlements like Fateng, illustrate why proponents deem the act necessary.
Fateng’s local councillor, Malefetsani Mokoena, 51, spends his days mediating disputes between landowners and Black rural folk who live among them. Tall and wiry, he is usually decked out in the red uniform of his party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which wants to nationalise the country’s gold and platinum mines and seize land from white farmers.00:14’We don’t want to move,’ white South Africans say to Trump’s offer
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“Sometimes the white farmers don’t trust me,” he told Reuters in the township’s three-room brick municipal office. “But when we sit down and negotiate, we can work things out.”
One white farmer interviewed by Reuters, Danie Bruwer, confirmed that he and Mokoena were on good terms.
If a farmer has a sheep stolen, Mokoena finds the thief to get it back. A Black herder has his cows impounded for trespassing on white-owned land; Mokoena negotiates their release.
And, as with the 15 other farms in his caseload, if what Mokoena calls “farm dwellers” – squatters, legally speaking – face eviction or restrictions on their rights to graze animals, he finds them legal representation.
‘THIS IS OUR HOME’
The mostly white-owned farms around here are among the nearly 26 million hectares – about three quarters of privately-owned land – still in the hands of whites, who make up 8% of the population. Only 4% of privately-held land is owned by Blacks who are nearly 80% of South Africa’s 60-million population.
On one white-owned farm, Meyerskop, 57-year-old herder Shadrack Maseko surveyed an expanse of hilly pasture stretching almost to the horizon. He complained of how it had been fenced off a decade ago by a new white owner to prevent cattle owned by Black South Africans grazing on it.
Maseko’s grandparents had come here in the early 1900s to seek work as farm hands, he told Reuters during a visit with the EFF councilor Mokoena.
The family had been there ever since, he said. His father, who died two years ago, was born here, as was Maseko.
“This is home,” he said, and then to illustrate the point: “Even some of our ancestors are buried here.”
The farm has changed hands between white farmers several times since Maseko’s family has lived there, and buyers had previously been happy for them to stay on and work, he said.
But in the past decade he and 14 other families living on Meyerskop have been in a dispute with the latest white owners over grazing rights for their 30-odd cows, details of which were corroborated by six other residents interviewed by Reuters.
In 2019, farm owners the Fonteintjie Trust and trustee Fourie Scheepers sought a court order to force them to sell most of their cows. It argued the animals were badly degrading the land, according to a copy of the application seen by Reuters.
Maseko said Scheepers had proposed another patch of land – a small area flanked by maize fields that Maseko indicated on a part of the farm – while the new owners moved their own cows to the old space. Maseko said the new patch was too small.
“No comment,” Scheepers replied via text message several times, when asked about the case.
‘START OF A JOURNEY’
For many Black people, disputes like these reflect a legacy of inequality left by the colonial and apartheid eras, when they were dispossessed of their lands and denied property rights.
In 1913, a Native Land Act gave most farmland to whites, mostly Afrikaners of Dutch descent, leaving just 13% to Blacks. Then in 1950 the Afrikaner National Party passed a law removing 3.5 million Black people from their ancestral lands.
Thirty years of ANC government has created a class of super-rich Black businessmen, but done little for the poor majority.
“The idea (behind the act) is that our freedom was not complete in 1994 because the promise of…economic emancipation was not fulfilled,” legal expert Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said.
He noted that the act requires 17 steps before land can be expropriated. But for Kellie Kriel, CEO of Afriforum, a pressure group that represents the interests of the white Afrikaner community, that is not enough of a safeguard.
“The act creates a valid fear that it opens the road to … land grabs,” he said, adding farmers worry that the act’s guidelines could be abused.
Some white farmers, like Danie Bruwer, are more sanguine.
“It’s an emotional thing for the farmers … but it’s not so bad. Zero compensation is a last resort,” he said on his 1,000-hectare farm about 30 km (20 miles) from Fateng. A bigger problem, he said, is that without better support for farmers – hit hard by climate change, rising costs, corruption and stock theft – the act may not achieve much.
For Ngcukaitobi, that is not the point.
“It’s the start … not the end of the journey,” he said. “A reminder that what (people) fought for, what they went to prison for, what they died for, was not in vain.”
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