Entitled, “Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa” the executive order specifically criticized the country’s new Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 providing for “expropriation without compensation” of land belonging to ethnic minorities, especially white Afrikaners. According to Trump’s order,
“This 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.
A red truck, also serving as a stage for the speakers, played a prominent role in the protest on March 28, 2025. Photo: FWM.
“In addition, South Africa has taken aggressive positions towards the United States and its allies, including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and reinvigorating its relations with Iran to develop commercial, military, and nuclear arrangements.”
Since the announcement, hardly a day has gone by in the country without some reaction to Trump’s executive order. Several protests by white Afrikaners have already taken place in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria – all of them in support of Donald Trump.
Recently, on 28 March 2025, about 150 bikers, farmers and other Afrikaners gathered in front of the embassy, led by a red truck sporting the banner: “Make South Africa great again.”
Other placards read: “White Genocide”, “No human rights for whites”, “Stop Racial Laws, Land Grabs & Farm Attacks”, as well as “Abolish All Race-Based Laws Right Now!” A letter and memorandum were handed over by the protestors to the Political Officer of the embassy, Mr. David N. Roberts. The memorandum was also published on Twitter.
ENDING THE SCAPEGOATING OF AFRIKANERS AMID ANC CORRUPTION
For over three centuries, Afrikaners have been a cornerstone of South Africa’s development.
Afrikaner contributions indelibly shaped its economic backbone, physical infrastructure, and cultural tapestry. Emerging from… pic.twitter.com/aoogS9sOJa
— Dan Roodt (@danroodt) March 27, 2025
Race Laws
According to a widely publicised calculation, South African now has 142 race laws discriminating against white people when it comes to jobs, access to capital, freedom to do business with government or large corporations, education, property ownership and even the right to bequeath money to a charity after one’s death. As a rule, the country’s ANC regime discriminates against charities that help white orphans or elderly persons, trying to starve them of funds.
Whereas many Afrikaners wish to stay in South Africa, approximately 72 000 have expressed interest in taking up the offer of becoming refugees in the U.S.A., which has the world’s largest economy as well as a per capita income of $83 000 per annum. Although the income of white people remains significantly higher than that of other ethnic groups in the country (except Indians) per capita income in South Africa has declined to only $6000, even lower than neighbouring Botswana which stands just below $8000.
A lot of the placards and banners contained messages about farm murders in South Africa. Photo: FWM.
There are fears that once the “expropriation without compensation” policy is implemented, it would lead to a Zimbabwean-style collapse of agriculture, together with the food and distribution industries. As a result of corruption, mismanagement and the looting of state-owned enterprises created by the pre-1994 Afrikaner government, South Africa has been in economic decline. The well-known economist, Dawie Roodt, recently said during an interview that “the ANC has done tremendous damage to the South African economy over the last thirty years”.
Whereas Afrikaners are generally regarded as the most patriotic group in the country, the daily violence and 142 antiwhite race laws are driving many to consider fleeing to the United States after Trump’s executive order.
However, the process of applying for refugee status is not that simple as applicants still have to prove that their lives are in danger or that they are being persecuted on racial or ethnic grounds. Also, the American embassy is struggling to cope with the avalanche of enquiries and applications, fueled by a website of Afrikaners now calling themselves “Amerikaners”, the Afrikaans word for “Americans”, amerikaners.com with the front-page slogan: “Resettlement in America made easy.”
Another placard at the protest on March 28. While the ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa, denies that there is a white genocide taking place in South Africa, the phrase is often heard among the members of the threatened minority population, given the number of daily murders, robberies and attacks.
Accordingly, the United States has announced that it will vastly expand its embassy operations in South Africa, renting several office buildings in the capital city of Pretoria solely to process Afrikaner refugee applications.
On the other hand, President Donald Trump might have an ulterior motive in welcoming “Afrikaner farmers” to the USA. On the whole, Afrikaners are a sophisticated, Christian, Western nation where the average person is more likely to be a lawyer, stockbroker or engineer than a farmer. Whereas in 1900, around the time of the Anglo-Boer War, eighty percent of Afrikaners were farmers, the current percentage is probably between one and two percent.
‘EU and ANC have common values’
The EU has a shortage of engineers and is therefore snapping up Afrikaner engineers and accountants who are being discriminated against in their own country for being white. This takes place without any fanfare. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is apparently pro-discrimination because recently during an EU-South Africa summit in Cape Town she embraced the ANC’s policies, stating that “most importantly, we are united by shared values and common interests… South Africa remains an emblem of hope for the world. As your great writer Albie Sachs (a communist) put it: ‘South Africa gives hope that all societies can heal, unite and emerge stronger.’”
The Trump administration is under no such illusion and therefore wants to address its own shortage of farmers by extending a welcoming hand specifically to farmers, in the light of the Expropriation Act and threats of land confiscation by the ANC regime. According to reports, there are already 10 000 mostly young Afrikaner farmers working in the USA.
In a recent case, such a farmer who was head-hunted by an agricultural conglomerate in Texas, gave up his own business in Cape Town because he could make three times as much money harvesting cereals in the USA. He decided to keep his family in Cape Town and to fly back home once a month to spend time with his wife and young child. Then he decided to take them to America after all, saying: “Last week, while I was away, a gang broke into our house. Attacked my wife and kid at knifepoint. Stole our cash and toys. I’m taking them to America.”
An added bonus for Trump might be that all Afrikaner refugees will probably vote Republican as they come from a society that has been largely destroyed by leftism and political correctness. Democrats in the USA are generally hostile to Afrikaners and espouse similar socialist policies to those of the ANC in South Africa.
New Afrikaner Act in the US
In a further development, a Republican Congressman from the 22nd district in Texas, Troy Nehls, issued a statement on April 3, 2025, saying (he) “introduced the Asylum for Farmers and Refugees in Crisis and Necessary Emigration Resettlement (AFRIKANER) Act, which would give Priority-2 refugee status to residents of South Africa who are members of the Afrikaner ethnic minority group that have suffered persecution, or have a well-founded fear of persecution, on account of their race, ethnicity, or ancestry. The AFRIKANER Act would also give Priority-2 refugee status to the spouses, children, and parents of these individuals so long as they are residents of South Africa.”
Troy Nehls. Photo: Wikipedia.
The “Afrikaner Act” in the USA would offer such refugees a “quick pathway to citizenship”. According to Nehls, “The Afrikaner population in South Africa has been experiencing unjust racial discrimination, and the situation continues to get worse by the day,” said Congressman Nehls. “President Trump is right. How Afrikaners are being treated is a massive human rights violation. My bill will offer Afrikaners a pathway to the United States to flee the persecution they’ve lived through initiated by their own government.”
The ANC regime has reacted with defiance, accusing the USA of “interfering with South Africa’s sovereignty” and basing its decisions on “misinformation”. According to the ANC Foreign Minister, Ronald Lamola, “it is misinformation. I can lay it down to that and maybe, obviously, a racist agenda.”
On social media, such as the X platform, many blacks have told Afrikaners “to take up Trump’s offer and leave”. Herman Mashaba, the black leader of a smaller political party in South Africa known as Action SA, bluntly told a white radio personality, Gareth Cliff, to “take up Trump’s offer” on X.
I suggest you take up Trump’s offer to show your gratitude.
Don’t concern yourself with others. https://t.co/RrAgnVH9sA— Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) February 8, 2025
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