The Great White Offload: scam of the century

DONALD Trump was promised Christian farmers fleeing “white genocide” in South Africa.

- GILLIAN SCHUTTE

What he got instead was AfriForum’s charity box of surplus volk: out-of-work bouncers, hairdresser assistants, boarding house managers, and working-class families looking for a better life. If the contents of that consignment had been chicken instead of people, the US Department of Agriculture would've shut it down for misleading labelling.

Just as the US dumped its low-grade chicken parts into Africa through AGOA - wings, necks, gizzards - AfriForum and Solidariteit appear to have tried the same trick with what they perceive as politically expired volk. It was strategic dumping with a PR budget.

Disguised as a refugee programme, this was AfriForum’s Great White Offload. Ideological offcuts in the guise of human cargo.

The roots of this export scheme reach far deeper. The poor white problem in South Africa emerged in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as economic shifts, drought, and the fallout of the Anglo-Boer War pushed large numbers of Afrikaners into unemployment and despair.

These were white people falling out of whiteness collapsing into visible poverty in a society premised on the illusion of white superiority.

By the 1930s, this so alarmed the ruling elite that the Carnegie Corporation of New York was invited to investigate. Their report didn't call for inclusive upliftment. It recommended the structural elevation of poor whites into the formal economy - achieved by kicking Black people out of skilled jobs, redistributing state resources to whites, and creating an entire welfare system reserved for the pale and struggling.