Second chance for Amerikaner ‘refugees’
The granting of refugee status to a small group of white Afrikaners by the US – an offer that has been extended to include members of other racial minorities who can credibly demonstrate that they are being discriminated against – will have profoundly negative implications for SA. It puts the ANC-led government in a quandary […]
Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. White Afrikaner farmers reject that
BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country’s agricultural heartland, some touching the names of the dead — both Black and white. […]
South Africans laugh at Donald Trump’s ‘folly’ over taking in Afrikaner ‘refugees’
Forty-nine Afrikaners departed South Africa for the United States on Sunday, May 11. U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said that this group was fleeing racial persecution in the country and would welcome them into the US with open arms. This unprecedented process, however, has seen some South Africans in disbelief over Trump’s ‘folly’. Sam BusaURL
Elon Musk’s War With South Africa, Where Apartheid Scars Run Deep
South Africa has found itself at the unlikely center of an American political firestorm, Elon Musk, who grew up there during apartheid, weighing in repeatedly. Last week, America welcomed the first group of South African Afrikaans refugees to the country, a move which has proved contentious. Some dispute the validity of their refugee status and […]
‘They’ll be back’: White Afrikaners leave South Africa to be refugees in US
On a chilly Sunday evening in Johannesburg, OR Tambo International Airport was filled with tourists and travellers entering and exiting South Africa’s busiest airport. On one side of the international departures hall, a few dozen people queued – their trollies piled with luggage, travel pillows and children’s blankets – as they waited to board a […]
Do Afrikaners want to take Trump up on his South African refugee offer?
Sam Busà, is another white South African who has applied for the refugee programme. She is the founder of Amerikaners, a platform aimed at providing information to white South Africans interested in the US resettlement offer. While Ms Busà, who is of English, not Afrikaner, descent, and her three sons have submitted their applications, they […]
Why are white South Africans going to the US as refugees?
The first 59 Afrikaners have landed in Washington to be resettled in the US and a further 8,000 have applied to leave home. Sam BusaURL
Why do we mock Amerikaners?
Do we really have to mock people who use an opportunity to leave their country of birth when invited to settle elsewhere? It’s a big, potentially traumatic step for any family. Compassion would not be out of place. So what if South Africans who have left for the US do not fit the United Nations (UN) definition […]
The Great Trek
ACCORDING to the founder of the Amerikaners website, Sam Busa, a vrag Afrikaners are set to follow the 54 “refugees” who left South Africa for the US on Sunday. US president Donald Trump repeatedly said that this group was fleeing racial persecution and would welcome them into the US with open arms. And Busa, who founded the Amerikaners […]
First white South Africans board plane for US
Three decades since Nelson Mandela ushered democracy into South Africa, the white minority that ruled it has managed to retain most of the wealth that was amassed under colonialism and apartheid. Sam BusaURL