South African government denies persecuting Whites, ends up acknowledging it
South Africa’s government published a statement on Tuesday that unwittingly acknowledged its persecution of Whites while attempting to deny it.
The African National Congress (ANC), which assumed power in 1994, has come under fire for its treatment of South Africa’s White minority, which comprises roughly 7.7% of the population. President Donald Trump has accused the ANC of passing discriminatory laws that disadvantage Whites, particularly White farmers, and being complicit in genocidal massacres of White South Africans that go largely unpunished. The Trump administration has offered refugee status to White Afrikaners fleeing this persecution, and earlier this week, welcomed 49 new White Afrikaner refugees under the program. The move angered those on the Left, who until now have championed granting asylum to refugees. It also sparked an angry reaction from the ANC, which on Tuesday posted a statement on X denying the persecution of Afrikaners.
“Let it be categorically stated: there are no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa,” the press release read. “No section of our society is hounded, persecuted or subject to ethnic victimisation.”
However, the ANC immediately went on to say that those with “historic privilege”—meaning Whites—must face “justice” and “accountability.”
“What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege.”
The ANC added that it is indeed seeking to “redress past injustice.”
“The misuse of refugee protections to shield right-wing, anti-transformation elements is a violation of the spirit and letter of international law. Millions around the world face real persecution and they are the ones deserving of sanctuary, not those offended by a democratic society working to redress past injustice.”
The press release directs media inquiries to ANC National Communications Manager Mangaliso Khonza, who goes by the nickname “Stalin” and whose Instagram handle is “stalin873.”
While negotiating the end of the apartheid government in the 1990s, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was already voicing plans to confiscate wealth and power from the White population. His strategy would be like “boiling a frog alive,” he said, by incrementally increasing discrimination against Afrikaners.
This week, Ramaphosa slammed the 49 refugees as “cowards.”
“When you run away, you’re a coward,” he told a reporter. “And that’s a real cowardly act.”
White genocide
For years, the ANC has been accused of perpetrating a genocide against the White population, which the legacy media have dismissed as a “far-right conspiracy theory.” In 2018, Trump ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the murders of Boers, White South African farmers, following a report by Fox News on the issue.
Boers have been targeted in massacres for decades, which the nonprofit group Genocide Watch has said are planned as part of a genocide against Whites. According to a report by AfriForum last year, there were 296 reported attacks on Afrikaner farms in 2023 and 49 murders, one less than in 2022. Only a handful of murder suspects are arrested and convicted.
In addition to murders, hundreds of thousands of destitute White Boer Afrikaners who live in large squatter camps also face death from cholera and other diseases wrought by poor sanitation and a contaminated water supply. Aid workers have blamed the disease-related deaths on intentional neglect by local ANC councils.
"Every year, these brave descendants of the proud Boer people have to fight court battles against evictions by town and city councils everywhere,” said aid worker Gideon van Deventer, according to Israel National News.
"Sometimes these councils employ sly tactics, like charging the destitute for allegedly contravening all sorts of obscure council regulations, which is clearly a form of harassment and intimidation, as they own nothing, are clearly indigent, and can by no means be perceived as a threat to the mighty form whatsoever.
"The ANC council and government policies of 'blacks first' will eventually be their ruin, especially if this case turns into an epidemic or a human rights disaster," van Deventer said.
This grim picture of Afrikaner life — particularly the farm murders — is said to be carefully constructed by the ANC, which reportedly intends to eliminate the White population from South Africa. XP
South African politicians have spread violent rhetoric against Whites. MP Andile Mngxitama, who was elected to Parliament last year, called for a genocide of Whites if even one Black person is killed.
Julius Malema, head of the popular Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, has led public chants to “kill the Boer.”
“Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is Black people. No White person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us,” said Malema in a 2016 speech.
Legal racism
South African entrepreneur Robert Hersov told podcaster Dave Rubin in March that the ANC has implemented 140 anti-White laws in South Africa, which he described as “boiling us like a frog in a bowl.” In November 2023, for example, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development issued a notice restricting agricultural export permits from farms that are too White. In May 2023, ANC officials proposed race-based water quotas that would only grant water use licenses to farms that employed a certain percentage of Blacks. South African-born Elon Musk has said that his company, Starlink, is prohibited from operating in South Africa because the company does not have enough Black ownership.
In 2018, President Ramaphosa seized a ranch from two White farmers named Johan Steenkamp and Arnold Cloete. They had asked $13.7 million for the land, to which the government countered by offering just 10%. When they refused, Ramaphosa gave them seven days to hand over the keys. The boers were not given the opportunity to make their case in court.
“This is necessary to correct a past wrong. It is also necessary to ensure a fair and prosperous future for all,” said Ramaphosa.
