President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to encourage resettlement of some of the white South African minorities known as Africans in the US, but the groups representing them will not go anywhere on Saturday This has been made clear.
Newsweek contacted the White House by email for comments on Sunday.
Why is it important?
Trump's executive order, which also blocked foreign aid to South Africa, is set in response to the country's new laws, and when government is not in use or it is redistributed in the public interest, people are You can take land from it. .
The law aims to correct some of the past mistakes of apartheid in the country where black land was expropriated and forced to live in designated non-white areas.
Trump also cited South Africa in an order that undermines US foreign policy, as in January 2024 when he accused the International Court of Justice of genocide against the Gaza people in the war with Hamas.
In the order, Trump accused South Africa of “government-sponsored race discrimination.” He said it includes confiscation of property from Africans without compensation.
South Africa denied coordinated attacks on white farmers, claiming that Trump's orders were “a campaign of misinformation and promotion.”
White people, including primarily Dutch Africans, British or other white South Africans, account for around 7% of South Africa's 62 million population.
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What do you know
“Our members work here and we intend to stay here and stay here,” Dirk Hermann, CEO of Solidarity of the Afrikaner Union, said at a press conference on Saturday.
“We promise to build a future here. We're not going anywhere,” Hermann added.
Solidarity says it represents around 2 million people.
Kallie Kriel, CEO of Afrikaner Lobby Group Afriforum, also expressed support from the white minority to stay in South Africa.
“We have to state categorically. We don't want to move anywhere else,” Kriel said.
Solidarity and Afriforum have revealed that they are staying in South Africa, but they and others are strongly opposed to the land expropriation law. These groups argue that the law targets South African-owned land that has worked for years to develop it.
What people are saying
A spokesman for South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa recently stated, “South Africa is a constitutional democracy. We value all South Africans, black and white. The claim that Africans face voluntary deprivation is , therefore, the assertion that they need to flee from their birth country is lacking all truth.”
Ramaphosa wrote on her previous Twitter X on Monday: “The South African government has not confiscated the land,” he added, “We look forward to being involved with the Trump administration on issues of land reform policy and bilateral interest.”
The South African Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday: Despite the true hardships of the world, they have been deported and denied from the world. ”
What will happen next
Trump told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Christi Noem that “Humanitarian relief priorities,” including entry and resettlement of Africans through the US Refugee Enrollment Program (USRAP) under Friday's executive order. We have instructed that measures be taken, including “them”
USRAP was closed by an executive order signed by Trump later last month. “Until further entry into the refugee United States coincides with US interests.”
The reason for the USRAP suspension given at the time was that America “protects them because it is not capable of absorbing many migrants, particularly refugees, into their communities in a way that does not undermine the availability of resources for Americans. Because it ensures safety and security, and that ensures proper assimilation of refugees.”
This article contains reports from the Associated Press.
