Why Afrikaners seeking refuge in USA face a moral reckoning

IN the daybreak of shattered dreams and fallen hope, South Africans are desperately searching for a promised land at the end of the Rainbow Nation.

- KIM HELLER

For Afrikaners, Trump's America is their newfound nirvana. Some Afrikaners are lining up for a whiter and brighter future in their new homeland of America, choosing the fate of being refugees ina foreign land rather than submitting to a transforming South Africa.

Oscar-winning performances in victimhood by the right-wing public protector of Afrikaner interests, AfriForum, and Afrikaners themselves have touched the sensibilities of the US President, Donald Trump.

In a dramatic cinematic climax, persecuted Afrikaners from South Africa's demonic democracy are fleeing to America. It is a folk tale, written not on the ink of prejudice or persecution but on the fountainhead of racial privilege. In reality, this group of Afrikaners are not running away from persecution but escaping from the very prospect of economic parity and historical justice in South Africa.

On Monday May 12, America welcomed 49 Afrikaners as refugees. They will be provided with shelter and sustenance in the “Land of the Free”.

A day after the Afrikaners arrived in America, US Senator Jeanne Shaheen drew attention to the fact that in 2024 the United Nations found that there were no South Africans that were eligible for refugee status.

It is a grand farce. From the micro-waving of instant refugees to the jol-liness of the official reception. The easy embrace of white refugees, who, unlike black or brown refugees, are not viewed as a threat to the American super-structure and cultural symmetry, is racial gatekeeping in action.