While the South African government announced another bill to target land ownership by white Afrikaners, representatives from the South African Solidarity Movement met with senior representatives of the Trump administration in the White House to fight for the interests of Afrikaners and South Africa.
After the Trump administration issued an executive order Feb. 7 offering “resettlement” to Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination, AfriForum head Kallie Kriel told The Epoch Times his organization had received almost 30,000 inquiries from Afrikaners indicating interest in claiming refugee status in the United States.
At a pro-Trump rally outside the US Embassy in Pretoria Feb. 15, activist Tewie Wessels spoke of his German great-grandfather’s decision to come to South Africa instead of going to the United States: “Both of our nations struggle with the spineless, supposedly conservative establishment.”