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Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump Let’s be perfectly clear: there is no “white genocide” in South Africa. None, whatsoever! And everyone, from Donald Trump to his political cronies and propagandists, knows it. That includes Trump’s vice president J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, billionaire ideologue Elon Musk, and the usual suspects in South Africa like AfriForum and Solidarity. These right-wing actors, both in the U.S. and South Africa, are not confused. They are complicit. This is not about misinformation. It’s about disinformation: a deliberate, malicious distortion of reality to serve Trump’s extremist agenda. The so-called “white genocide” narrative is a racist fantasy with no basis in reality. Of course, it is weaponised for political gain. It's imported from South African right-wing fringe groups, and recycled for American right-wing audiences obsessed with the fantasy of white victimhood. The Afrikaner group that left for the U.S. Even the 49 Afrikane...

Hello Friends, It’s been a while since I last posted here, and quite a lot has happened in the meantime. On the global stage, the U.S.-China trade war has continued to reshape economic alliances and stir geopolitical tension. Closer to home, we witnessed a rather unusual development: 49 Afrikaner “refugees” departed for the United States this week, due to their strong opposition to South Africa’s policies of redress. President Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t mince words in his response. He called the group, which reportedly includes an obese car salesman from Pretoria, “cowards,” noting: “They’ll be back soon. As South Africans, we are resilient. We don't run away from our problems. We must stay here and solve them. When you run away, you are a coward, and that’s a real cowardly act.” "Welcome to the land of the free," Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said as he received the white South Africans who landed at Dulles airport near Washington DC on Monday. In the world of sport...