Does Afrikanders want to leave South Africa to the United States?

Ulrich Gans van Foreign has made his passion for the participation and display of some of the best features of South Africa with his social media.

38 -year -old South Africa often takes clips to pick up scenes such as the cold morning Johannesburg, Jakaranda’s purple trees associated with the Pretoria race or famous beach facades in Cape Town.

“The promotion of South Africa is something I am enthusiastic about – I have no intention to take over the offer (US President Donald Trump) because South Africa is my home,” he told African proud BBC, days after a small group of white citizens left South Africa for their new lives as refugees in the United States.

The US president, and his ally, born in South Africa, Elon Musk, says that the white Africans are persecuted in their homeland, and that they are subjected to “genocide.”

This is the claim that has been circulated for many years, although it is The reputation has been distorted on a large scale.

Although some white farmers have been attacked and killed, South Africa has one of the highest killing rates in the world, so this is an issue that affects all its citizens, whatever their race.

“For me, South Africa is at home. It is a place where there are roots and heritage, where I can contribute to the story of our nation and make a beneficial effect,” said Mr. Gans van Foreign, who has more than a million followers on social media.

“I am in depth in the success of South Africa and I am proud to be part of its journey.”

While he wished for those who took Trump’s offer all the best in the United States and urged them to “not look back”, he insisted that none of them were refugees, but “opportunists”.

“They enjoyed more than their share of South African resources and privileges, and no one escapes racial persecution,” he said.

Thirty years after the end of the racist system for the racist semester, the average living standards of white society in South Africa remains much higher than the black majority.

Mr. Gans van Foreren said that the discussion of the AFRISESE status in South Africa has only worked to make it “ever designed to escalate and contribute to South Africa in every possible way.”

Four centuries after the arrival of the first group of Dutch settlers to what is now known as South Africa, most Africans themselves are completely African – as shown in the name – and they no longer sympathized with their European roots.

But many of them are not satisfied with the high crime rate and government policies that aim to reduce economic inequality in the country – especially a The law was issued earlier this year This allowed the government to seize the ground without compensation “when it is fair, fair and in the public interest.” White South Africa are 7 % of the country’s population, but they own half of its agricultural lands.

Some Africans are farmers and see that the law aims to.

Trump said that the legislation led him to provide assistance in resettlement of “African refugees who escaped from the government -sponsored discrimination.”

South Africa’s white farmers have always been a massive cry on the right and the extreme right of American policy.

But despite many allegations in the past of the systematic targeting of the country’s white minority group, the local crime statistics numbers paint a different image.

South Africa does not launch crime numbers on the basis of race, but the last figures revealed that 6953 people were killed in the country between October and December 2024. Among them, 12 were killed in agricultural attacks. Among 12, one of them was a farmer, while five residents of the farm and four employees were likely to be black.

On Monday, and The first group consisting of 59 African people reached the refugee position to Dallas Airport, near Washington, DC After choosing to leave their homeland.

The arrival of the group raised dismay and anger throughout South Africa, as civil society and leadership in the country sought to dispel allegations that the white minority was persecuted.

“They are leaving because they do not want to embrace the changes that occur in our country and our constitution,” said South African President Cyril Ramavusa.

Later Their movement described “coward work” When he addressed farmers at a conference held in Frei State.

Several South Africa chanted the feelings of the president, including Mr. Gans van Foreign, who is proud of his African origins.

While he was not mentioned in an agricultural family, he has relatives and friends in agriculture who were victims of the crime.

He said that although it cannot be denied that some farmers faced “real threats and difficulties”, it was important to be cautious “when discussing the allegations of persecution or discrimination that depict an entire group as victims of targeted violence or systematic persecution.”

While many white people from South Africa are chanting the feelings of Mr. Jansa van Foreign, there are also those who see themselves a persecuted minority.

Among them is ilse stenkamp, ​​who applied with her family, requesting the program but did not receive notes. She did not want us to use her real name.

Mrs. Stinscamp, 47, and her husband, both Africans, were commercial farmers, but they said they had lost their lands recently after they invaded people “seized the entire farm” just as they were about to sell it for “decline.”

She said they bought the land two decades ago, after the end of the apartheid.

She said that people who invaded critical infrastructure, which makes it impossible to sell.

Despite the efforts made to remove them through the courts, Mrs. Steenkamp said she was forced to give up the ground because the bank was carrying it.

Mrs. Stinscamp said that while she and her family were aware of the high levels of crime in South Africa, she often tried to “not allow us to be exposed to us”, this last attack was “the straw that broke the back of the camel.”

Although her family was keen to embrace Trump’s offer when she was first announced, the three mother told BBC that the departure decision “was very difficult because you leave a full way of life.”

In response to a question about whether it is not fair to give African to give the position of refugees at a time when the United States was turning against refugees and asylum seekers from everywhere in the world, Mrs. Steincamp said she was “not fully agreed.”

She pointed to the attack on farmers, saying that there is “hatred that seems to be going with these attacks.”

She said: “Any farmer passed by this attack (somewhat) and now wants to flee, I think it should be treated as a refugee because they flee from a government that will not even recognize that these things are happening.”

Sam Busa, 60, is another white South African, applied for the refugee program.

She is the founder of Aryikaans, a platform aimed at providing information to South Africa whites interested in displaying resettlement in the United States.

While Mrs. Busa, who is from the English language, not the Africans, Deirican, and her three children have submitted their requests, they have not yet been interviewed.

While he initially believed that the executive matter was mysterious in its original formulation, which was only applied to the egg African, Ms. Busà said it was “clearly targeting South Africa.”

On Monday, the US embassy in South Africa issued a statement clarifying the criteria for those who apply for resettlement, which they said that applicants should be:

• South Africa, South Africa
• Afrikaner or from a racist minority
• Pricted by an accident of past persecution or fear of persecution in the future

In response to criticism that they were not real refugees, Mrs. Busa said: “When someone comes out in the future, although you are not in an incoming area … someone holds your dreams and hopes for the future, this is very exciting. It is mental pain and somewhat emotional use.”

But Dr. Beit Crocamb, Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Northwest South Africa, opposed, saying that those who receive this offer were not refugees because “South Africa is not persecuting people.”

Instead, he speculated that those who were victims of a crime and “could determine their existence as unsafe.”

Dr. Croucamp, an Africanner, said that although he did not expect a large number of South Africa white, there are always “opportunistic” people who benefit from the situation.

“This is a small group of people who leave-the vast majority of African people do not go anywhere and expressed themselves. Even the right-wing Africans … (like) Avurum and solidarity They said they will not go anywhere. So even in the African circles, this is a small group of people.

Despite their criticism of the government and its sweat -based policies, each of the outstanding lobby groups has repeated Africa Afriforum and the solidarity movement its intention to stay in South Africa.

Ephorum said that although the government was blame for the group’s departure, they gave the position of refugees, they will remain and continue their efforts to help create a future for Avr where here at the southern end of Africa. “

This is a view approved by Mr. Gans van Foreign.

“While some may choose to leave as refugees, the majority of us are here to stay, and they work together to build a better future for all in South Africa.”