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Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Trump wants more Afrikaner refugees while others are stuck due to his ‘cruel’ policies
Thousands of vetted and approved refugees are suffering as Trump restricts quotas and prioritizes white South Africans…
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Trump Administration Suggested Funding Afrikaner Group in South Africa — ProPublica
Recently, we published our investigation that found one answer to that question in a little-known bureau of the State Department that has dramatically transformed under Trump. For decades, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, known as DRL, has supported human rights in some of the most oppressive countries in the world. Now, our reporting found, it’s planning to direct funds to controversial groups supporting right-wing causes in Europe and elsewhere…
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-afrikaner-south-africa-money
Thursday, May 28, 2026
South African government, Afrikaners reject Trump administration claim of a humanitarian emergency | PBS News
President Donald Trump announced he was increasing the refugee cap for white South Africans because of "an unforeseen emergency refugee situation." He blamed the South African government for "recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence," but gave no specific information. .
South African Foreign Ministry spokesperson Chrispin Phiri said accusations of systemic persecution of Afrikaners were unfounded and that some beneficiaries of the refugee program have chosen to return to South Africa…
Spokesman Jaco Kleynhans said the organization didn't know about any "unforeseen emergency refugee situation" for Afrikaners but respected the autonomy of U.S. refugee policy...
Friday, October 31, 2025
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans | US immigration | The Guardian
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/trump-refugee-restrictions-white-south-africans
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
South Africa is at the heart of the HIV pandemic. What happens now the money has been cut? | Global development | The Guardian
"South Africa is particularly revolting, because they actually do have the resources."
Monday, May 26, 2025
Weekly Roundup: Oklahoma’s Catholic Charter School and Hegseth’s Prayer Service (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Dan discusses recent developments on the separation of church and state, focusing on the Oklahoma Catholic Charter School case and its split decision in the Supreme Court. He also analyzes the implications of Pete Hegseth’s Christian prayer service at the Pentagon, highlighting concerns about religious liberty and the mixing of church and state.
Additionally, the episode examines JD Vance’s criticisms of Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts and addresses ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary. The script also touches on Trump’s claims of white genocide in South Africa and the alleged evidence presented during a meeting with South African President Cyril Rama.
The episode concludes with reflections on populist rhetoric and the role of evidence in shaping perceived truths.
Interview:
Additionally, the episode examines JD Vance’s criticisms of Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts and addresses ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary. The script also touches on Trump’s claims of white genocide in South Africa and the alleged evidence presented during a meeting with South African President Cyril Rama.
The episode concludes with reflections on populist rhetoric and the role of evidence in shaping perceived truths.
Interview:
Friday, May 23, 2025
Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa | Reuters
In meeting with South Africa's president, Trump showed article with picture of body bags…
Trump said bodies were those of white South Africans killed in the country…
Picture was a screenshot of a Reuters video taken in Democratic Republic of Congo in February…
Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism | Trump administration | The Guardian
Cyril Ramaphosa responds to hectoring stunt in Oval Office and egregious claim of white genocide by suggesting calm…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/trump-south-africa-president-meeting
Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims ignore the reality of life and crime in South Africa | Trump administration | The Guardian
It was not immediately clear where the white crosses had been filmed or even whether the footage was real. The Whitkruis Monument is a memorial to dead South African farmers, but the crosses are clustered on a hillside on private land.
While there have been farm murders involving horrific violence, killers interviewed in jail told Rudolph Zinn, a University of Limpopo professor, that they targeted victims of all races for cash and valuables. In the last quarter of 2024, South African police recorded 12 murders on farms, including Black-owned smallholder plots, out of almost 7,000 murders across the country...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/trump-south-african-president-meeting
Trump falsely claims Australia being ‘inundated’ by white South Africans fleeing ‘genocide’ | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
South Africa is not in the top 10 of countries of origin for humanitarian entrants into Australia. Conflict-torn countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Myanmar dominate that list.
Australia's South African-born population (not limited to humanitarian or refugee entrants) is the seventh-largest migrant community in Australia. It represents about 2.6% of Australia's overseas-born population and 0.8% of Australia's total population...
Saturday, May 17, 2025
White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts | US immigration | The Guardian
Charl Kleinhaus confirms he owns account that contained posts, as White House uses antisemitism as rationale for deportations…
Sunday, May 11, 2025
US grants asylum to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, reports say
South Africa's foreign ministry said in a statement: "It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being 'refugees' is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa's constitutional democracy; a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans
Saturday, March 1, 2025
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be 'death sentence for mothers and children', expert warns…
Saturday, February 15, 2025
‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
Donald Trump's offer of political asylum to South Africa's white minority, just days after blocking genuine refugees from travelling to the US, followed years of campaigning by an Afrikaner group that has promoted "white genocide" conspiracy theories while also lobbying on behalf of Elon Musk's business interests...
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa | Elon Musk | The Guardian
"What is indisputable is that Musk and Thiel grew up amid incredible privilege where the racial hierarchy was clear. Those who claimed to reject apartheid sought to explain this privilege not as the result of systemic racial oppression but the natural order of things thanks to their own abilities. That in turn led some to regard all forms government as oppressive and true liberty as an individual battle for survival…"
"You can call this anti-democratic principle dictatorship if you wish. In Italy it is called 'Fascism', in Germany 'German National Socialism' and in South Africa 'Christian nationalism'."…
"We all [white South Africans], by the very nature of our privileges and our place in the racial hierarchy, grew up believing we were the master race, even if we didn't actively think about it,"…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
Sunday, June 9, 2024
South Africa floats universal basic income for all
The ruling ANC is on a pioneering path to transform the Covid grant into a scheme that aims to combat poverty…
Thursday, March 9, 2023
South African Parliament Votes to Downgrade Embassy Over Israeli Crimes in Palestine
South African lawmakers voted Tuesday to downgrade the country's embassy in Israel in response to its apartheid, illegal occupation, and other crimes against Palestinians—a move welcomed by human rights advocates around the world...
Thursday, September 10, 2020
'He was no leader': South Africa denounces Trump's reported comments about Mandela
The report that U.S. President Donald Trump made crude, disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning former leader, has drawn an angry response from South Africa’s ruling party and others.
According to a book written by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Trump said that Mandela, who guided South Africa in its politically fraught transition from a racist apartheid government to a democracy, was a terrible leader.
Cohen wrote that after Mandela’s death in 2013, Trump said: “Mandela f---ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s---hole. F--- Mandela. He was no leader.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/he-was-no-leader-south-africa-denounces-trump-s-reported-n1239603
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/he-was-no-leader-south-africa-denounces-trump-s-reported-n1239603
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