17,000 South Africans Apply for Refugee Status as Local Afrikaners Urge Trump: “Help us Here” and Elon Musk Calls for Arrest of Radical Who Sang “Kill the Boer”
In just a few hours, 17,000 South Africans have contacted the South African Chamber of Commerce USA after President Trump signed an Executive Order granting Afrikaners refugee status. Many Afrikaners are calling for help to protect their 400-year-old community in South Africa. Elon Musk called to declare “Kill the Boer” singer Julius Malema “an international criminal.”
The mayor of Afrikaner community Orania, Joost Strydom, said, “We are very thankful, specifically for the urgency with which this was tackled in regards to land expropriation.”
“However, our plea can be summarized in three words: Help us here. Not necessarily with US tax dollars, but with the recognition of our legitimate pursuit: Afrikaner self-determination in an autonomous region. Recognizing us as an ethnic people leads to a conclusion: that the only solution for Afrikaners is an autonomous area. … Our highest ambition is not to be resettled or relocated, it is freedom. We ask the White House to recognize this, and extend that wish to all other nations.”