The United States is ready to welcome to its territory “South African farmers and other innocent victims who are the subject of attacks solely because of their race“, a State Department spokeswoman announced today, referring to the South African land expropriation law, which Washington considers discriminatory against the white minority in the Republic of South Africa (SAA), reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
“The United States is ready to help the descendants of South African colonists who have been expropriated and abused by the South African government“, said spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on the social network “Ex“ just a day after US President Donald Trump froze all foreign aid to South Africa.
In South Africa, most of the land is owned by the white minority - a legacy of the policy of expropriation of the black population during apartheid, AFP notes.
At the same time, rights groups for South African Afrikaners (descendants of European, mainly Dutch colonizers, also known as Boers - ed. note) said today that its representatives would not leave the country amid the controversy over US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze international aid to the country. He had earlier explained his decision with alleged racial discrimination, DPA reported.
„We don't want to move elsewhere. "We will not ask our children to move to another country," said Kali Krill, executive director of the non-governmental organization "AfriForum", which represents the white Afrikaans-speaking community.
Krill said she would contact the governments of South Africa (SA) and the United States to find solutions to the issues facing Afrikaners.
She spoke at a press conference called by "AfriForum" and the labor union "Solidarity" (“Solidarity“) in response to Trump's executive order yesterday, which offered to resettle Afrikaner refugees “fleeing government-sponsored racial discrimination, including racially-motivated property confiscation“.
White South Africans, who make up less than a tenth of the country's population, still own the majority of private land in South Africa even 30 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime.
The South African government said in a statement today that Trump's executive order was “a campaign of disinformation and propaganda“ that lacked “factual accuracy“.