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Trump reignites South African debate over white farmers: Persecuted or privileged?

Christian Science Monitor

By Kate Bartlett Contributor

April 16, 2025

Zenia Pretorius was still in bed one Saturday morning in February when her phone started lighting up with excited messages from friends and family.

She soon learned why. American President Donald Trump had just signed an executive order offering certain white South African farmers – her family among them – refugee status in the United States.

It was “like a miracle had been dropped from the sky,” she recalls.

Over the previous year, her family had clashed with the Black community living alongside their onion and potato farm in the country’s northern Limpopo province.

So when Mr. Trump asserted that Afrikaners – the descendants of mostly Dutch colonists – were fleeing “race-based discrimination,” the American president’s words struck a chord with Mrs. Pretorius.

Since he took office in January, the president and his allies, including South Africa-born adviser Elon Musk, have acted as a global megaphone for the fears of farmers like the Pretoriuses – that white people have no place in the new South Africa.

So we know that Musk is probably a racist since he is backing a far-right party in Germany and his Nazis salute and historically, the Afrikaner-led National Party implemented apartheid, a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

Now Trump and Musk greets them with open arms... while Latinos and Blacks immigrants are being thrown out of country!