SA ‘refugees’ are background extras in Maga’s noisy scam

Bathing these Afrikaners in the language of victimhood, Donald Trump has fast-tracked through an executive order and welcomed them in. By Richard Poplak

- Richard Poplak

Let's just say it wasn't your typical refugee exodus.

One of the dubious perks of 21st-century journalism is reporting on the profusion of migrant camps and settlements pocked across the world.

According to the UN, almost 304 million humans are on the run from the horrors of a decaying planet — be it the unkindness of their neighbours, the caprice of their rulers or the fury of the weather itself.

I've seen people inhabiting white tents in the Democratic Repubic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and, once or twice, here at home in filthy church basements, where they hid from the violence of this country, the wounds on their flesh and in their minds suppurating slowly in front of the cameras.

One thing that all these disparate people have in common? A distinct lack of luggage.

On the evening of Sunday, 11 May, at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, a cluster of 50 or so Afrikaners (and their bags) were spirited onto an aircraft chartered by the US government. These were the first in a tranche of local white, supposedly farmers granted refugee status by the Trump regime, which alleges that this minority is targeted for persecution by the South African state.

Worse, the South African government, insist the Americans, is a ghastly amalgam of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, intersectional politics, wokeness and anti-white racism. Bathing these Boers in the language of victimhood, Trump has fast-tracked their exodus through an executive order and welcomed them in. Others in need have been told not to bother. They are the anointed. The blessed.

And they are just the beginning.