Some Africans chant while Trump inflames the claims of persecution

For decades, some members of the White Frescane minority were trying to persuade anyone and everyone who listens to the fact that they were the real victims in South Africa after the apartheid.

They have made allegations of mass killing to their people and their vast lands by a black -led government, which insists on seeking revenge for the sins of the Apartaner apartheid government. Their stories were wrong or ExaggeratedBut this did not prevent them from amplifying and repetition on the Internet.

Africans, an ethnic group descended from the European colonists – primarily – found a champion of their cause in President Trump, and this led to a moment that could have imagined a few of them.

On Friday, Mr. Trump put the weight of the American influence behind a strongly disputed claim that the Africans were “victims of non -fair racial discrimination”, the source. Executive To allow them to migrate to the United States as refugees, and stop aid to South Africa.

This step was met with dismay in South Africa, which is a black majority with more than 90 percent of the population of ethnic groups that the racist separation system suffers from. These groups – black, colored and Indian – are still statistically far from the white minority in almost every economic action.

There were heinous crimes of white farmers and the concentration of Africans’s grief, but police statistics indicate that they represent a very small share of the country’s killings.

It is not clear whether Mr. Trump’s interest in South Africa has been affected by Eileon Musk, and he is now one of his close advisers, who were born and grew up there and criticized his government.

For Afrikaeers, who make up about 4 percent of the population, Mr. Trump’s work was the coronation of years of international pressure.

“What happened last night is the most important international work” in South Africa since 1994, when the racist separation system lost power, Ernest Rotes, CEO of the Africanner, said it A group of invitation, on Saturday.

He said that Mr. Roets made several trips to Washington over the years to meet legislators and thought tanks, and he has another planned trip within two weeks. He said that his organization had not met any officials in the Trump administration and did not participate directly in the executive order. But they spoke with people in the orbit of Mr. Trump and caused international awareness of their cause.

“We have committed some things wrongly, but every society has committed some things wrongly,” said Mr. Rotes. “We felt this feeling of making a scapegoat and blameing everything. The fact that there is now a confession is something I think many people will welcome it.”

I Ibrahim Krasol, the South African ambassador to Washington, said that South African government officials were somewhat suffering from Mr. Trump through Mr. Trump’s order, and learned it through news reports.

Mr. Trump publicly began to focus on South Africa last Sunday, with jobs on social media and comments on journalists, indicating that the country’s government was seizing white soil.

President Cyril Ramavusa from South Africa last month signed a law that allows the government to take private lands, in limited circumstances, without compensating the owners. But legal scholars say that such seizures are subject to judicial scrutiny, and in most cases the government will compensate the owners of the lands it acquires for public purposes.

Supporters of the law say that it is partly necessary to compensate for the imbalance resulting from a history of eggs that control most of the lands, while black property was limited by force and law.

After Mr. Trump made his comments, Mr. Musk asked Mr. Ramavusa in a post on X, “Why do you have public racist royal laws?”

“We have never seen an escalation of diplomatic tensions,” Vincent Magoina, spokesman for Mr. Ramavusa, said, adding that the issues raised by Mr. Trump “had been placed in complete takids and distortions about our country.”

Mr. Magwenya said that Mr. Ramaphosa spoke with Mr. Musk last week and was “certain that we do not have racist laws.” But Mr. Musk Persevere White people in South Africa are persecuted.

Kali Creyle, CEO of Afriforum, an African rights organization, said that the actions of South Africa have strengthened American leaders, especially them An accusation before the International Court of Justice Israel was committing the genocide in Gaza.

While the allegations rejected that the white South Africa was widespread victims of killing, He cited many laws that said the African goal. One of the law allows the government more control over the language of education in schools, which can vary from one place to another, and some Africans believe that it will restrict the use of Africans in the classroom.

Mr. Creyle said: “It is a direct threat to our cultural existence.”

Melanie Ferord, Ambassador of the Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, said the focus on African’s rights has been the history of a people since the seventeenth century of the land that their ancestors took from blacks. She said that she was speaking “as a white person, as an African,” adding that he was “categorical”, a liar that the white South Africa were persecuted.

“The vast majority of the poor in this country are still black people,” said Ms. Feruerid. “If any group is dealt with poorly, or if there are any human rights violations to talk about it, this is in black, not eggs.”

Mr. Ramavusa met twice with Mr. Musk last year to discuss bringing his business, most notably the satellite communication system in Starlink, to South Africa. In those meetings, Mr. Musk did not express their concern about the abuse of white people in South Africa.

Instead, the main concern of Mr. Musk was the requirements of South Africa that foreign companies abandon some ownership to South Africa black or other historically deprived groups, Mr. Maguina said. Mr. Musk told the president that he was concerned that he would determine a bad precedent for other markets in which Starlink runs.

Mr. Musk is primarily from English, not African, the lineage. Tensions are spreading between South Africa, white, English and Avrikanis, who are often more stereotypes than blue collar and less developed.

The Africans tend to have a mysterious vision of the country from the population as a whole. In the 2023 poll conducted by the Humanities Research Council, 79 percent of Africans said they were not satisfied with democracy in the country and said 47 percent that they belong to a group that suffers from discrimination – rates higher than any other group.

The white population, which is about 4.5 million, decreased steadily for decades-there was a net immigration of 700,000 white people since 1985, according to Southern Africa Statistics, the official government statistics agency. But there has been no sign – at least yet – that the Africans would tend to emigrate collectively to the United States.

Mr. Roets and Afriforum leaders said they want to stay in South Africa to improve. They said they intend to ask the Trump administration, instead of cutting all financing to South Africa, to invest in organizations that help African societies.

Among the essential grievances of Avrikanis are that they face violence on farms and that the government is distinguished against them by the policies that seek to give preference to black African in areas such as business and land ownership. But the supporters of sweat -based policies argue that since the apartheid used the race to suppress and fulfill the black population, the conscious rules of race are required even on the standards.

“It is not completely free of all the truth,” said Albert Grendling, an honorary professor in history at the University of Stellinbush and Avrkanner, about African’s concerns. “To say this as a group, they are now beaten and have no possibilities at all, this is an exaggeration.”

Benny van Zalel, General Manager of the Agricultural Union in Transvaal, South Africa, said his colleagues from African wanted black farmers to be successful.

“But the government makes the land issue a race issue,” he said. “For us, this is not related to race – this is related to success.”

Reports previously contributed Jeffrey Mew From Harari, Zimbabwe.