Ideas & Opinions — Simon Gates: Simple

Ideas & Opinions — Simon Gates: Simple

In a May 14 piece, it was stated: “... the Trump administration prioritized the South Africans ahead of about 12,000 already approved refugees...” Musk is from South Africa. Nothing more needs to be said.

Trump’s Afrikaners are South African opportunists, not refugees

The characterization of white South Africans as refugees is not merely an absurdity but a downright insult to those genuinely subject to genocide, Roger Southall writes.

At S.Africa's top farm fair, Afrikaners are divided over Trump

At S.Africa's top farm fair, Afrikaners are divided over Trump

Afrikaners are South African Opportunists, Not Refugees

South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of language. So perhaps they should not be unduly surprised that the government of the US has imported 49 Afrikaners and labelled them as “refugees”. The claim is that they are escaping from the persecution of Afrikaners – and white people more broadly – in South Africa today. But there is no evidence whatsoever that Afrikaners or white people more generally are subject to genoc…

Travelstart's 'Great Tsek' campaign upsets Afrikaners

Travel agency Travelstart has been dragged on social media over a campaign mocking Afrikaner “refugees”. This comes a week after 49 white South Africans arrived in the US under President Donald Trump’s resettlement programme. TRAVELSTART SHOWS MIDDLE FINGER TO AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEES’ In an electronic newsletter this week, Travelstart showed flames to the 49 Afrikaner “refugees” who touched down in the US last week. The campaign used the tagline, th…

Trump’s Afrikaners are South African opportunists, not refugees: what’s behind the US move

There is no evidence whatsoever that Afrikaners or white people more generally are subject to genocide.