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p1wo's avatar

From the moment Trump signed the Executive Order calling white Afrikaners to escape the "sunken place" that is South Africa, my thoughts, as a black South African woman, have been why are white South Africans silent on this? I expected silence from the those seeking "greener pastures" but I wanted white South Africans to speak up. When I saw the wealthy white South Africans who joined President Cyril Ramaphosa, - particulalry Johan who is not Friends with Trump as you cliam- there was a bit of relief that maybe when they speak, the world might listen. Because as you state this is not just about South Africa, but it feeds narratives of threats to the white race. I do not, however, agree that whiteness did win overall because as you know many South Africans have security cameras- if there was a large scale genocide they would have captured it and it would have been played in the Oval office. It was not played because it does not exist. Since then, there have numerous fact-checking missions proving that the "newspaper clippings" - many of more blogs and social media than investigative journalism- are fictitious. So, chaos is a ladder. At the very same time, many people simply do not care about the facts but will continue to claim there is a white genocide.

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Sarel Van Der Walt's avatar

Will not be surprised if in a few months Trump makes the claim that he stopped the White genocide in SA by then stating the relatively low murder rate of Whites compared to Blacks in SA, as well as the fact that no land has been expropriated, and that this is due to his “brilliant” negotiation skills. He might even limit the number of Afrikaner refugees as some form of concession to another interest group in the US.

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