White South Africans reject Trump’s resettlement plan

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — 

Groups representing immoderate of South Africa's achromatic number responded Saturday to a program by President Donald Trump to connection them exile presumption and resettlement successful the United States by saying: thanks, but nary thanks.

The program was elaborate successful an enforcement bid Trump signed Friday that stopped each assistance and fiscal assistance to South Africa arsenic punishment for what the Trump medication said were “rights violations” by the authorities against immoderate of its achromatic citizens.

The Trump medication accused the South African authorities of allowing convulsive attacks connected achromatic Afrikaner farmers and introducing a onshore expropriation instrumentality that enables it to “seize taste number Afrikaners' cultivation spot without compensation.”

The South African authorities has denied determination are immoderate concerted attacks connected achromatic farmers and has said that Trump's statement of the caller onshore instrumentality is afloat of misinformation and distortions.

On Saturday, 2 of the astir salient groups representing Afrikaners said they would not beryllium taking up Trump's connection of resettlement successful the U.S.

“Our members enactment here, and privation to enactment here, and they are going to enactment here," said Dirk Hermann, main enforcement of the Afrikaner commercialized national Solidarity, which says it represents astir 2 cardinal people. “We are committed to physique a aboriginal here. We are not going anywhere.”

At the aforesaid quality conference, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of the Afrikaner lobby radical AfriForum, said: "We person to authorities categorically: We don’t privation to determination elsewhere."

Trump's determination to authorisation South Africa, a cardinal U.S. trading spouse successful Africa, came aft helium and his South African-born advisor Elon Musk accused its Black enactment of having an anti-white stance. But the portrayal of Afrikaners arsenic a downtrodden radical that needed to beryllium saved would astonishment astir South Africans.

“It is ironic that the enforcement bid makes proviso for exile presumption successful the U.S. for a radical successful South Africa that remains amongst the astir economically privileged," South Africa's Foreign Ministry said.

There was "a run of misinformation and propaganda" aimed astatine South Africa, the ministry said.

Whites successful South Africa inactive mostly person a overmuch amended modular of surviving than Blacks much than 30 years aft the extremity of the apartheid strategy of achromatic number regularisation successful 1994. Despite being a tiny minority, whites inactive ain astir 70% of South Africa's backstage farmland. A survey successful 2021 by the South Africa Human Rights Commission said 1% of whites were surviving successful poorness compared with 64% of Blacks.

Trump's enactment against South Africa has fixed planetary attraction to a sentiment among immoderate achromatic South Africans that they are being discriminated against arsenic a signifier of payback for apartheid. The leaders of the apartheid authorities were Afrikaners.

Solidarity, AfriForum and others are powerfully opposed to the caller onshore expropriation law, saying it volition people onshore owned by whites who person worked to make that onshore for years. They besides accidental an arsenic contentious connection instrumentality that's precocious been passed seeks to region oregon bounds their Afrikaans connection successful schools, portion they person often criticized South Africa's affirmative enactment policies successful concern that beforehand the interests of Blacks arsenic racist laws.

“This authorities is allowing a definite conception of the colonisation to beryllium targeted,” said AfriForum's Kriel, who thanked Trump for raising the lawsuit of Afrikaners.

The South African authorities says the laws that person been criticized are aimed astatine the incredibly hard task of redressing the wrongs of colonialism and past astir a half-century of apartheid, erstwhile Blacks were stripped of their onshore and astir each their rights.