Are Afrikaners 'refugees' to US 'opportunists'?

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A white commercial farmer has branded Afrikaner “refugees” to the US for being “opportunists.”

Last week, a second batch of white South Africans left the country under the resettlement programme. They claim to be “persecuted” based on their race.

ARE AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEES’ FARMERS OR PERSECUTED?

Last month, US President Donald Trump claimed white Afrikaner refugee farmers have been targeted based on their race. He also falsely claimed that South Africa implemented land grabs, based on the recent Expropriation Act, and other “racist laws.”

However, many SA authorities – including President Donald Trump – have disputed his claims.

Speaking to France23, Nick Serfontein claimed that the Afrikaner “refugees” who left for the US are not real farmers.

He added: “They are opportunists”.

Denile Samuel of the Women on Farms Project echoed similar sentiments.

She told Newzroom Afrika: “My sense about that (issue) is, the real people who are marginalised, the real people who are not heard and not seen are farm workers. They are the ones who need to complain, not white Afrikaners

She added, “They are opportunists, that is what they are.”

Granite mining businessman Charl Kleinhaus has been questioned over his decision to become an ‘Afrikaner refugee’.
Images via X/ Facebook: Honey Badger Granite Mining

FAST TRACKING IMMIGRATION

Meanwhile, Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Roger Southall, claimed that many of the “refugees” used the programme to fast-track their immigration to the US.

In an op-ed, he wrote, “Emigrating requires jumping through numerous hoops: meeting educational and professional qualifications, getting a job offer, having sufficient financial resources to support themselves and their families before they can qualify for recipient countries’ social security systems, and so on.�

“The evidence suggests that the heads of household among the Afrikaner 49 are drawn not only from that minority of Afrikaners who are totally unreconciled to democracy, but who, quite simply, are opportunists who have availed themselves of a shortcut to emigrate.

DWINDLING JOB OPPORTUNITIES?

Despite the criticism, Solidarity Movement spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans claimed that many Afrikaners who chose to leave South Africa over a lack of employment.

He posted on his X account: “20% of Afrikaners have already left the country permanently or temporarily because they could not find work here. The white unemployment rate is completely skewed.�

“Hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners have been pushed out of the formal labor market and have started their own businesses or emigrated”.