‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status

I am not sure how MAGATS will react to importing African Americans.

The Whites of South Africa (a mere 7% of the total population) lead lives of such protected privilege that they're not going to emigrate to Trump-Musk's dystopian shithole, where they wouldn't be ruling the roost like they do now.

It's a racist fantasy that South African's Afrikaners are in so much danger from the "blecks" that they need to come here to save themselves.

R2, the impression I had mostly aligns with what you wrote but what are their long term prospects? Do they walk around feeling like the sword of Damocles is over them or feeling like masters of the universe? Do they imagine their grandchildren growing up in South Africa?

They live off the fat of private land, of which whites own over 70%.

What would they need protection from?

I think most of the ones that actually wanted to leave post Apartheid have long since already left for AUS/UK/NZ. If Jacob Zuma and his song about machine gunning farmers becoming president last decade and the general state of the country didn't make the rest leave I assume they're pretty much happy where they are.

I know a couple of Afrikaner gay farmers from South Africa, one who used to be a lawyer and his much younger partner, who owned a huge ranch there. Yes, the crime was a serious problem but it affected Black farmers as much, if not even more, than the Afrikaners, since they couldn't afford armed security. The crime is a result of huge disparity in wealth in South Africa. The said friends sold their farm, bought an even bigger farm in Botswana, a vacation house in Namibia, and are always off somewhere, travelling to places like Seychelles.

Musk's MAGA ideology:

Make

America's

Goal

Apartheid

As if we don't have enough of our own, homegrown racist extremists ...

SMH

Are farmers really being routinely murdered?

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week - New York Times

The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners, who President Trump says have been racially persecuted in South Africa, stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.

Trump is gross. DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts to come over from South (West) Africa, and then only for a short analysis of his pecs.

German South West Africa.

Good

Bad.

In my experience, white South Africans are absolute cunts. Awful people. Arrogant, nasty assholes.

Whites are 7% of the population, this is a cherry-picked strategy to please an audience of one.

[quote] DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts

Is Ruben white skinned?

Musk and Trump dream of establishing an Orania in this country. In fact, an Orania in every state.

Disgusting

Where are they going to build Sun City?

How delightful! Afrikaners are the loveliest people and will ingrate beautifully in the USA!

What this country really really needs now... are more fucking Nazis. Fuck them and their dickhead accents, and fuck every single person in this administration responsible for this.

These people are reprehensible.

Gender affirming care for Eileen.

Whites only, of course

[quote] Whites only, of course

Is Ruben Lambrechts literally white skinned though?

[quote]DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts to come over from South (West) Africa

Newsflash: It's been called Namibia since 1990, when it gained independence from South Africa. They are separate countries.

The U.S. welcomes political and race discrimination refugees. It's economic "refugees", who try to take advantage of America's generosity in order to make money, that a majority of Americans abhor.

Seth Efrica

They’re fucking weird people

[quote]They’re fucking weird people

That's the Dutch in them.

Dutch people:

It's Musk's influence. Trump is dumb and will just go along with him.

I applaud it!

[quote] The U.S. welcomes political and race discrimination refugees. It's economic "refugees", who try to take advantage of America's generosity in order to make money, that a majority of Americans abhor.

Cheryl is a cunt.

If you think the Russians, the French and the Israelis are rude, wait til you meet these charmers!

I don't think they could hack it in the US. What if they had to work for a black person?

[quote] 49 white South Africans leave for US after Trump offered them refugee status

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.

The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Msibi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry.

They are the first Afrikaners — a white minority group in South Africa — to be relocated after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 accusing South Africa’s Black-led government of racial discrimination against them and announcing a program to offer them relocation to America.

The South African government said it is “completely false” that Afrikaners are being persecuted.

The Trump administration has fast-tracked their applications while pausing other refugee programs, halting arrivals from Afghanistan, Iraq, most of sub-Saharan Africa and other countries in a move being challenged in court.

Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized ahead of people from countries wracked by war and natural disasters. Vetting for refugee status in the U.S. often takes years.

The Trump administration says the South African government is pursuing racist, anti-white policies through affirmative action laws and a new land expropriation law it says targets Afrikaners’ land. The government says those claims are based on misinformation and there is no racism against Afrikaners and no land has been expropriated, although the contentious law has been passed and is the focus of criticism in South Africa.

South Africa also denies U.S. claims that Afrikaners are being targeted in racially motivated attacks in some rural communities. Instead, the South African government said Afrikaners — who are the descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers — are “amongst the most economically privileged” in the country.

The first Afrikaner refugees were traveling on a flight operated by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based charter company Omni Air International, Msibi said. They were to fly to Dakar, Senegal and stop there to refuel before heading for Dulles.

The South African government said there was no justification for them being relocated but said it wouldn’t stop them and respected their freedom of choice.

We had a whole bunch of white South African kids at my high school and it still haunts me. Some of them were really weird looking too

They're arrogant cunts who think they're better than everyone else.

[quote] Are farmers really being routinely murdered?

Not really, but it’s important to remember that violent crime has ALWAYS been a problem in South Africa, even during apartheid. If farmers are being “targeted”, it’s not because of the race of the farmers, it’s because it’s a crime of opportunity. These farms are typically in more remote, isolated locations away from towns and law enforcement, making it easier for groups of thieves to target.

And if many of the victims are white, well that’s because the vast majority of farms in South Africa are owned and managed by white people.

It seems to me like Elon's Boer accent has gotten thicker lately. I assume it's from confabbing with his fellow Afrikaaners on this latest installment of his white power fantasy.

Some additional context in this story:

Sorry, put the link the wrong field

They're herrrrrrrrrrre! Elon their arrival just as Shitler takes off for Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

It's going to be a long, hot summer.

Trump claims they are here because "they face genocide" in South Africa.

HA!

Looks like a quality group of new White Trash MAGA voters...

^^Elon timed their arrival ...

White South Africans make up 7.3% of the population, but own the vast majority of privately held farmland, according to a 2017 government report.

One of Trump's closest advisers, South African-born Elon Musk, has previously said there was a "genocide of white people" in South Africa and accused the government of passing "racist ownership laws".

The claims of a genocide of white people have been widely discredited.

On Monday, Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen described the resettlement as "baffling" given the "indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers" from other countries.

In a statement sent to the BBC, Gregory Meeks, ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Trump administration's refugee resettlement was "not just a racist dog whistle, it's a politically motivated rewrite of history".

"Refugee policy should protect the vulnerable, not serve an extremist agenda," he said.

Melissa Keaney, a lawyer with the International Refugee Assistance project, said the White House's decision to fast-track the Afrikaners' arrival amounted to "a lot of hypocrisy and unequal treatment".

"The speed at which that [the Afrikaners] were processed is remarkable and unprecedented, and required, I think, a lot of sort of bending rules by the state department and changing procedure," she told the BBC.

Her organisation is suing the Trump administration after it indefinitely suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) in January. She said that policy had left over 120,000 conditionally approved refugees in limbo.

Afrikaner author Max du Preez told the BBC's Newsday radio programme that claims of persecution of white South Africans were a "total absurdity" and "based on nothing".

Figures from the South African police show that in 2024, 44 murders were recorded on farms and smaller plots of agricultural land, with eight of those killed being farmers.

South Africa does not report on crime statistics broken down by race but a majority of the country's farmers are white, while other people living on farms, such as workers, are mostly black.

Bilateral relations between the US and South Africa have been strained since President Trump first tasked his administration with resettling Afrikaners, a group with mostly Dutch ancestry, in the US.

In March, South Africa's ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled after accusing President Trump of using "white victimhood as a dog whistle", leading to the US accusing Mr Rasool of "race-baiting".

The US has also criticised South Africa for taking an "aggressive" position against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Pretoria has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of genocide against Palestinians - a claim the Israelis strongly reject.

Could it be that white farmers from South Africa strike Trump as exactly the overseers that large work farms will require?

As usual, whatever they accuse Democrats of doing is exactly what they are doing. They're importing white people to the US who will vote Republican. I wish more people would call out this white supremacist bullshit.

[quote] As usual, whatever they accuse Democrats of doing is exactly what they are doing. They're importing white people to the US who will vote Republican.

Twenty million illegals vs 49 SA refugees. If what you stated is the GOP plan, they’re obviously not it doing well.

Thanks for taking these assholes off our hands, Donald.

And that’s par for their course!

20 million eh 🧐

He’s just rubbing our noses in the fact that he can openly favor white people and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Demagogues often rule vindictively.

They are Afrikaners.

[quote] They are Afrikaners.

R56, are you the same poster who kindly informed us that American buffalo are land dwellers?

[quote] They are Afrikaners.

The NYT felt it necessary to state that not only are they Afrikaners, but they’re white Afrikaners.

They might have been Creole Afrikaners.

Put em to work in the Tyson chicken plants of Arkansas.

Would Afrikaners in Arkansas be awkward?

Meat packing in Nebraska is more their style—see how long they last.

[quote] Would Afrikaners in Arkansas be awkward?

Absolutely.

R46 WOW I knew these people would be white. I just didn’t think they would be Duelling Banjos white.

Why is this not being extended to the Cape Coloureds?

[quote]The Whites of South Africa (a mere 7% of the total population) lead lives of such protected privilege that they're not going to emigrate to Trump-Musk's dystopian shithole, where they wouldn't be ruling the roost like they do now.

[quote]It's a racist fantasy that South Africa's Afrikaners are in so much danger from the "blecks" that they need to come here to save themselves.

They have been promised easy lives and even more privilege. The US even sent a plane to pick them up. More MAGAs. They'll fit right in.

Below - a song called "I never met a nice South African"

[quote] The impression I had mostly aligns with what you wrote, but what are their long-term prospects? Do they walk around feeling like the sword of Damocles is over them or feeling like masters of the universe? Do they imagine their grandchildren growing up in South Africa?

True - but, isn't that true of so many other countries' peoples? They're being given privileges because they are white; the Trump administration sent a special plane to pick them up.

Someone from Argentina needs to grease the way for the Argentines -- they are white and in worse trouble than the S. Africans. They can dance, and have excellent taste.

Argentinians are very attractive.

[quote] He’s just rubbing our noses in the fact that he can openly favor white people and there’s nothing we can do about it.

[quote] Demagogues often rule vindictively.

r55 - Just like the jet. Trump loves to get away with crimes and then flaunt them. These ARE NOT political refugees; they are economic refugees. The life of the white S African has gotten worse since the end of apartheid.

r68 - I never met an ugly Argentine.

Some of you don’t seem to understand that the offer wasn’t extended to all white South Africans, but only to Afrikaners, who are a subset of all white South Africans.

Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch settlers.

Anglo South Africans are descendants of largely English settlers.

The two groups have a different primary language and are largely antipathetic to each other.

Guaranteed this group is literally white trash. They’ll feel right at home in rural West Virginia.

Why would anyone want to import trash like that, R71? Sounds like trouble to me.

Fuck Elon.

Would the South African natives be happy to expel the colonial descendants?

How long before these cunts get on welfare and food stamps?

They're not here to work.

[quote] Episcopal Church says it won't help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US

The Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe announced the step Monday, shortly before 59 South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and were greeted by a government delegation.

Episcopal Migration Ministries instead will halt its decades-long partnership with the government, Rowe said.

Episcopal Migration Ministries has long resettled refugees under federal grants. Rowe said that about two weeks ago, the government contacted it and said it expected the ministry to resettle some of the South Africans under terms of its grant.

“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe said. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”

Another faith-based group, Church World Service, said it is open to helping resettle the Afrikaners.

The move marks the end of a ministry-government partnership that, for nearly four decades, has served nearly 110,000 refugees from countries, including Ukraine, Myanmar and Congo, Rowe said.

You lost me at “natives”, R74. Apart from which you obviously have no idea of the various issues at play here.

Run along.

I'm sure it was just a coincidence that Landau's tie matched the colors of the apartheid flag.

Thank you, R70.