“No Thank you”: White South Africans reject the US immigration offer in the United States | Political news

The executive order of the President of the United States provides a resettlement of Africani who victims of unfair racial discrimination. “

The United States President Donald Trump's proposal to redirect white South Africans such as pursuit refugees may not stimulate the quite hasty, as the right white lobbying group soil.

Trump on Friday signed an executive order to reduce US assistance in South Africa, referring to Alienation law This President Cyril Ramafosa signed last month, striving to eliminate inequalities in the land that stem from the history of South Africa about white supremacy.

Trump's order envisages a resettlement in the United States of Africani in South Africa, who victims of unjust racial discrimination as refugees.

Africani are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who have the greater part of the agricultural land.

“If you have no problems here, why would you like to go?” Asked Neville Van der Merve, a 78-year-old retiree in Botasig near Cape Town.

“There was no really bad (people) to take over our land, people continue as normal and you know what you will do there?”

The law, signed by Ramafosa, seeks to deal with the differences in racial ownership of the land-which left three quarters of private land in South Africa in the hands of the white minority-as it facilitates the state to alienate land in public interest.

Ramafosa defended politics.

White people represent 7.2 percent of the South Africa population of 63 million, according to the Statistics Agency. The data does not break how many Africanists are.

Prior to the independence of South Africa, its British colonial rulers conveyed most of the white lands to the whites. In 1950, the National Party of the Apartheid era seized 85 percent of the land, forcing 3.5 million blacks from its homes.

The African National Ramafosa National Congress (ANC), the largest party in the ruling coalition, says Trump is intensifying the misinformation distributed by Afriforum, a group led by Africa.

The group lobbing the previous Trump administration regarding its cause said it was not embarking on the proposal.

“Emigration offers only Africanists who are willing to risk potentially sacrificing the cultural identity of their descendants like Africa. The price for this is just too high, “said Afriforum CEO Kali hid on Saturday.

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Separately, the Solidarity Movement – which includes Afriforum and the Union of Solidarity and stated that it represents about 600,000 African family families and two million individuals – expressed a commitment to South Africa.

“We may disagree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in any community, there are people who want to emigrate, but repatriation of Africans as refugees is not a solution for us, “the Solidarity movement said.

Orania representatives, an enclave only for an Africaer in the heart of the country, also rejected Trump's proposal.

“Africa do not want to be refugees. We love and are committed to our country, “Orania said.

Land policies in South Africa since the end of apartheid have never participated in the forced seizure of white property.

However, some said they evaluated Trump's proposal.

“I think this is a very nice gesture from Donald Trump to offer us asylum there,” says Werner Van Nickerk, 57, a carpenter in Botasig, without saying if he will migrate in the US.

Others saw the fun side.

“Some questions: Is there a test to determine your Africania? Do you have to hold Afriforum membership? … Will Elon help with some startup money on the other side? … Is there a bak (pickup) in the US? “The author Peter Du Tit wrote to X, citing a billionaire born in South Africa and Trump's assistant Elon Musk, who accused the Ramafosa government of” open -owned racist ownership laws. “