Witkruis Monument, a monument complex that commemorates lives lost in South African farm attacks. Bill Gobey was shot in the face (and according to court documents died shortly afterwards from an unrelated cause) and his wife killed at Hekpoort, North West, when robbers tried to steal a safe from their rondavel.Wikimedia Commons, Johnnyhurst, CC-BY-SA-3.0
In 2009 Newsweek magazine reported on “South Africa’s New White Flight” and the high rate of violent crime there as the main reason for emigration:
“The primary driver for emigration among all groups, but especially whites, who still retain the majority of South Africa’s wealth, is fear of crime. With more than 50 killings a day, South Africa has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world. The same goes for rape—ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan…”
Fast forward to 2025 when the BBC reported that “almost 70,000 South Africans, the vast majority of them white Afrikaners and descendants of Dutch and French settlers who began arriving at the Cape in the late 17th century, were interested in United States asylum.”
In April 2025, South African businessman Rob Hersov, a 5th-generation Afrikaner, told Dave Rubin that the country under President Cyril Ramaphosa is slowly going bankrupt, and that the country was in the midst of a political and economic crisis and fraught with corruption.
“South Africa is infected with the evil woke mind more than in America,” he said. “We’ve got it times two and there’s no momentum in South Africa to reverse it.”
He then added: “South Africa needs a big wake up call.”
That wake up call has come in the person of Donald J. Trump who recently welcomed 59 white South Afrikaners refugee status in the United States because of that country’s racist attacks on its white citizens because they are the descendents of whites who upheld apartheid.
Anti-white South African laws go way beyond the Expropriation Act, signed into law by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in January 2025 that allows land seizures by the state without compensation.
The law gives the government the right to seize not only farmland but any property from whites, since they are the primary land owners, when the government deems it is in the national interest.
Defenders of the law are fond of saying that because it has not been enacted yet whites have no reason to complain, yet the mere fact it is on the books is tantamount to aiming a loaded gun at South Africa’s minority white population.
Hersov explained that the law even gives the government the right to “take the watch off my arm…. They barely need to justify it.”
While news media outlets like USA Today, the New York Times and The Guardian make light of President Trump’s assertion that white South Afrikaners are “fleeing genocide”-these publications quote Ramaphosa’s lie that the [Expropriation Act] hasn’t been enacted yet” as the reason why the plight of Afrikaners is a “false narrative,” they fail to mention South Africa’s 140 or so anti white laws that put white lives at risk.
According to Hersov:
“There are so many other laws in South Africa that are anti-white, race-based and make it almost impossible for businesses to thrive there.”
In fact, “South Africa wasn’t stolen; it was given away to the African National Congress (ANC), who dismantled a thriving nation through corruption, incompetence, and greed,” Hersov said. “It’s time to stop making excuses and start demanding real leadership to rebuild the country’s future.”
The ANC is the party that freed South Africa from apartheid in 1990 but lost its parliamentary majority in 2024, although it still holds considerable sway and influence along with the country’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a Marxist-Leninist pan-Africanist political party.
Under its current racist black leadership, South Africa-the country’s next national election is scheduled for 2029-has the highest unemployment in the world.
One anti-white law impacts business because it mandates that every business in the country must have 30% black ownership. Is it any wonder then that South African Airlines, once the premier airline in Africa, is now bankrupt? Even the country’s electrical supply system (the Eskom Electricity Supply Commission) is failing: it shuts down for at least 4-5 hours a day, leaving citizens without electricity.
And yet despite its 140 race-based laws, all of them anti white, organizations like the ADL claim that “white supremacists have seized upon some of the farm-related violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid to peddle a propaganda campaign.”
Mainstream media-propagandists posing as journalists-like USA Today delight in headlines such as: “White South Africans arrive in US. Trump’s ‘genocide’ claim disputed.”
The blatant racism of South Africa’s government became fairly obvious in the comments and statements made by Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s former ambassador to the United States, before the Trump Administration sent Rasool packing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Rasool a “race-baiting politician,” when the black Muslim radical said during an online lecture that President Trump was trying to “project white victimhood as a dog whistle” as the white population faced becoming a minority in the United States.
“We see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the Maga movement as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white,” Rasool stated.
Clearly, this is not someone who should wear the mantle of ambassador, especially when he suggested that South Africa was under attack because “we are the historical antidote to supremacism.”
According to this logic, the historical antidote to white supremacism would be another form of supremacism: black supremacism.
Rasool’s slip of the tongue certainly belies Ramaphosa’s “false narrative” lie.
Focus on Western Islamism (FWI), a forum that educates readers about the threat posed by Islamism, labeled Rasool a terror-connected Islamist diplomat in 2024:
“In 2004, following Israel’s assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Rasool, then serving as finance minister in South Africa’s Western Cape, described the Hamas founder as ‘one of the greatest inspirations.’ He prayed that Palestinians, according to writer and broadcaster Joel Pollak, will ‘stand up to these enemies and never succumb, that they fight and they fight under a flag of Islam.’”
But leftists in the United States, especially as represented by the most Marxist Church in Christendom (Episcopal), a Church that has swapped The Book of Common Prayer for Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, has pledged not to help the white refugees because they are privileged and their tales of persecution is a myth.
In the meantime, we have President Cyril Ramaphosa calling the group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle “cowards,” adding “they’ll be back soon.”
The left’s opinion of South African refugees is that Trump’s executive order in February 2025 granting refugee status to Afrikaners is a travesty because they are the descendents of Afrikaners who repressed the black majority during apartheid.
As The Guardian put it: “White South Africans typically have 20 times the wealth of Black people…. The Black South African unemployment rate is 46.1%, compared with 9.2% for white people.”
The logic being: when you have most of the wealth, you still stand in the shadow of privilege and persecution can’t happen to you.
Despite, of course, the raw data reported by Genocide Watch and The Spectator-data ignored by the mainstream press-that:
“In South Africa, white farmers have for years been exposed to an unprecedented wave of violence. Statistically, a farm is attacked every day in South Africa. South Africa has the world’s highest murder rate, but the murder rate among white South Africans is three times higher than the national average, while that of white farmers is six times higher. Often, the victims are tortured and ill-treated for hours before being killed.”
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