Donald Trump has completed a task he began in his first Presidency – offering white South African farmers refuge in America.
The news came with an Executive Order that accused the South African government of showing a shocking disregard for the rights of its citizens.
The Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. This Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fuelling disproportionate violence against racially disfavoured landowners.
The order states that the US will not provide aid or assistance to South Africa and intends to promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees.
This matters, because the US is their largest aid provider with at least $6 billion given in the last decade.
‘My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism,’ said US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, shunning his G20 invitation.
Not to worry. The European Union has pledged $5 billion to South Africa to cover the gap left by Trump. Their Global Gateway package is for vaccine manufacturing and renewable energy. Evidently, the Europeans aren’t ready to let go of their playground even if the South African leadership is engaging in racial persecution.
In the twisted world of left-wing thought, it has become virtuous to shower racism with money so long as it arrives wearing the cloak of Big Pharma and Green Energy.
Instead of thanking America for all the money it had already spent, they were issued a passive-aggressive threat.
‘The world is playing with fire. I want to send a clear message to our partners from the US, the UK, and all other Western countries that please don’t come to blame Africa when there will be a pandemic coming from Africa because you decided to stop funding critical program,’ said the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Or perhaps South Africa could use the fortunes flowing in from China to pay for healthcare?
If there is a disease outbreak in South Africa, it will because they destroyed the farming industry. Indeed, foot-and-mouth outbreaks have already occurred where there is no one left to maintain biosecurity procedures. The ruin of some reclaimed farms can be seen on satellite maps as patches of scarred land where lush fields once thrived.
Yes, the failure of race politics can be seen from space.
The disingenuous nature of the South African government was on full display where it’s leader tried to hide racial land grabs by describing the controversial Act as ‘not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process that ensures public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution’.
Which is a load of garbage. I wrote about this in more detail last year, including the election promise of South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, to ‘return’ 30 per cent of agricultural land to black Africans by 2030.
Mr Ramaphosa likes to talk about ‘the rule of law, justice, and equality’ but he came to power promising wealth redistribution, stealing from citizens whose only crime was to be born white.
And while we are on the subject, Ramaphosa’s personal wealth is listed as around $450 million.
Trump was successful in his rescue of displaced and frightened farmers in part because of Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa.
When the President was asked why he approved 59 Afrikaners, who arrived on a specially chartered flight, Trump replied, ‘Because they are being killed and we don’t want to see people be killed. Now, South African leadership is coming to see me, I understand, sometime next week. We are supposed to have, I guess a G20 meeting … I don’t know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of.’
Taking aim at the press, he added, ‘It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about … farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. Whether they are white or black, it makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. And the newspapers and the media … doesn’t even talk about it. If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about.’
The refugees arrived waving American flags.
US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, told the press:
‘They tell quite harrowing stories of the violence that they faced in South Africa that was not redressed by the authorities by the unjust application of the law.’
Considering Donald Trump has begun deporting illegal migrants with a priority on gang members, he is at liberty to open America up to legal, productive, and beneficial immigration. Crime is walking out, skills are walking in. It is a perk of taking control of the borders and the Democrats hate it. They experience a physical revulsion toward success because it robs them of the opportunity to misuse public money.
As usual, those on the tolerant Left who spend their time calling everyone a ‘racist’ think it’s perfectly acceptable for South Africa to create a racially charged domestic environment.
Many of them deny the genocide is happening, closing their eyes to hillsides of crosses and stomach-turning police reports that reveal a level of depravity that goes far beyond ordinary criminality.
The second paragraph on the Wikipedia entry for South African Farm Attacks takes pains to point out, ‘…claims that such attacks on farmers disproportionately target whites are a key element of the white genocide conspiracy theory and have become a common talking point among white nationalists worldwide.’
That sounds as if the bodies of farmers were invented to serve a fringe ideology in a different country. Did the writers forget there are real people lying in the ground?
The entry adds that the South African government says farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem and do not have a racial motivation. That would be the same race-obsessed socialist government that has written legislation that forces the transfer of land based on race and the equally racist Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act.
There has been a cunning rebranding of the motivation for these farm attacks as greed or robbery, which ignores the reality that the primary drive of race politics is the acquisition of someone else’s goods with the justification of historic revenge. It’s a type of reparation. A violent one. So yes, robbery is the smoking gun of genocide.
We must add, just because South Africa is a violent country where people are killed for other reasons, it does not follow that race is not a motivator in other crimes. Both realities can be true. Nor does the absence of statistics mean the absence of crime, especially when the government reclassified farm attacks in a way that hides racial intent.
Top-down collective nationalistic race politics entrenched in South African legislation makes it clear to white farmers that they have no future in the country even though they have four centuries of cultural history. It is racial persecution, as clear as day, and yet the Western Left call it affirmation or reparation perpetuating the anti-Enlightenment view that a person should pay for the sins of their ancestors. Not all people, of course, just those the left select.
Take a good look at the twisted heart of collective politics. It is a heart that beats strongly in Australia as large parts of the country are locked away from people who are born the wrong colour and denied the same spiritual connection to their own country. Australians are told they live on stolen land while activists deface historical statues with violent messages that go unpunished. These are shadows of ideological horror.
Australia was one of the few countries that attempted to help South African farmers.
It was Peter Dutton, serving as Minister for Home Affairs, who tried to fast-track refugees.
The Australian Left wouldn’t allow it because as we all know, everyone can be a refugee except the descendants of long gone colonial empires.
What headline did the Conversation carry?
Peter Dutton’s ‘fast track’ for white South African farmers is a throwback to a long, racist history.
Disgusting.
They made sure to put ‘persecution’ in quotation marks to throw doubt on its existence. In one paragraph they talk about the ‘mutual racial purpose in white men’s countries like Australia, South Africa, and North America is located in a shared fondness for racial exclusion and segregation’ and then immediately admit that the South African legislation allows the racial expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation.
The Coalition showed signs of the ideological weakness when it took the word of the South African that the farmers were safe because the government was democratically elected. As we know, no minority community in history has been preyed upon by its government…
The Peter Dutton of old bravely said that his crazy lefty critics did not realise ‘how completely dead they are to me’. Of the press he said they can express concern and ‘draw mean cartoons about me and all the rest of it’.
At the time, he told 2GB, ‘It concerns me that people are being persecuted at the moment. That’s a reality. The numbers of people dying or being savagely attacked in South Africa is a reality. We’re looking at ways we can help people to migrate to Australia if they’re finding themselves in that situation.’
He added, ‘If people think I’m going to cower or take a backward step because of their nonsense, fabricated, fake news criticism, then they’ve got another thing coming.’
Unfortunately, saving the South African farmers was just another battle the Coalition lost in the culture wars.
Socialist regimes love to talk about wealth redistribution. It is a major talking point in the South African leadership who see the whites as having stolen the wealth of the country. What is forgotten by these socialists is the reality of wealth creation. The value added by generations of farmers and their practices which turned unproductive land into a gold mine for the country. That wealth is rapidly vanishing as land is redistributed back into the hands of people who cannot or will not put the same investment into the farms. The black communities surrounding these farms are breaking down as the system collapses leaving young people to flee into overcrowded cities looking for jobs that do not exist.
The natural result of South Africa’s persecution of white farmers is the massive State acquisition of land followed by a period of agricultural failure, and finally, as is taking place now, the government courting international companies to take on mega farms in dodgy contracts with the government.
Instead of allowing a natural and gradual equalisation of land ownership between private sellers of all colours based upon ability and viability, black South Africans get to see their land operated by foreigners on government contracts, most likely from nations such as China, who have no connection or care for the country.
Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
