Afrikaner resettlement to US rooted in refusal to coexist

IN THE quiet corners of Texas, Montana, and Tennessee, a curious and pitiful phenomenon is taking shape, a self-imposed exile where a handful of Afrikaners have decided to flee democracy, diversity, and dignity to recreate an imagined utopia in the heart of conservative America.

- DUGAN BROWN

The so-called Afrikaner resettlement programme, a project promoted as a way to "preserve culture" in the face of alleged persecution, is not the act of a brave people reclaiming their identity.

It is the final, embarrassing retreat of a failed nationalism, rootless, paranoid, and delusional.

Let's dispense with the myth from the outset: there is no "white genocide" in South Africa. No co-ordinated campaign. No war on Afrikaners.

There is crime, yes, as there is across the country for everyone, but the narrative peddled by these emigrants is less a cry for help than a theatrical excuse to flee a society they never truly accepted.

It's not fear driving them out, it's entitlement.

This isn’t a preservation of heritage. This is a refusal to coexist.

The irony is staggering. Afrikaner nationalism once thundered with visions of divine destiny, of a Volk called by God to tame the land and rule it.