Hundreds of White South Africans gathered outside the US Embassy in Pretoria on Saturday in support of US President Donald Trump, praising his decision to cut off American aid to South Africa and calling attention to racial discrimination by the country’s government.
The demonstrators, primarily from the Dutch-descended Afrikaner community, claim they have been targeted by new land expropriation laws, which are poised to allow the South African government to seize private property with little to no compensation.
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During the rally outside the embassy, many of the estimated 1,200 attendees were seen flying the American flag, wearing MAGA hats, and carrying signs reading “Thank God for President Trump.”
In an executive order last week, President Trump cut all aid payments to South Africa until the US government can fully investigate the new laws. The order also instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
The South African government has firmly rejected these claims, asserting that the land reappropriation law is not racially motivated and instead aims to address historical injustices without arbitrary land seizures. President Cyril Ramaphosa emphasized that forced removals will not be tolerated.
The law in question states that “It may be just and equitable for nil compensation to be paid where land is expropriated in the public interest.”
However, activists among South Africa’s White minority argue that these laws unfairly affect white citizens, as do the nearly 140 race-based laws passed in the county since the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s.
Additionally, they have compiled evidence of decades of racially targeted injustices, including the ongoing “farm murders”—a decades-long series of attacks that have claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 primarily White South Africans. These violent incidents often result in entire homesteads being burned to the ground after the owners are tortured, raped, and killed by bands of criminals.
Despite the high death toll, neither the South African government nor the international press have acknowledged that the killings are likely ethnically targeted.
And for more on the crisis in South Africa, watch this video from VT’s The Unusual Suspects:
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