The Deputy President of South Africa has started a media blitz saying that the White Afrikaners are ‘happy to stay’ and that they aren’t being killed in their beds (he didn’t actually say that, but the thought was there). All they need is to work with the government and they’ll take care of the issues they’ve been having:
Then there’s rural safety, because we know over the years people in the farming communities have been attacked, crime is rife… They want us to work with them on that so that we can deal with those issues.”
“They want us to work with them to ensure access to markets, including international markets, and access to finance. Those are some of the things that they are saying to us: if you work with us on these issues, we have no problem, we are committed South African, we want to stay here, we are not going anywhere.”
I’m guessing they realize that if the farmers leave out, they are in line to be the next importer, rather than exporter, of food. So they are trying to say that the farmers that arrived in the US do not meet the definition of refugees and that they’re just leaving because they don’t want to live under the country’s constitution (a new law passed in January allows for the seizure of land without recompense).
However from 2020:
Horrific killings of farmers, where victims were sexually assaulted, tortured and strung up on poles, have sparked outrage in South Africa.
In one of the cases, a female farm manager was sexually assaulted and strangled by two gunmen at her farm.
In a separate brutal attack on a farm manager 290km away, a man was tied to a pole and tortured before being repeatedly stabbed and then strangled.
And, in a third incident, a gang of nine attackers allegedly threatened to rape a farmer’s young children if he didn’t cooperate and give them what they wanted.
Farm manager Chantel Kershaw, 44, was ambushed by two armed men as she helped load a lawnmower onto a truck, The Sun reports.
They then held her down and strangled her in the garage of her farm at Delmas east of Johannesburg and left her lying on the ground before pistol whipping her mother.
There’s more at the link. It’s enough to make you throw up.
But the government itself says that a song ‘Kill the Boer’ isn’t hate speech. And they want to take their land. If I was a white farmer in South Africa and had a chance to get out without being stabbed or violated (or both), then I’d jam out as quickly as I could.
ETA via Old NFO: there is some question about the term genocide (CNN and Axios says that the output from Grok is misleading and that the talk of genocide is ‘misleading and debunked’). However the Axios article links to CNN who puts forth the claim that South Africa basically has a crime problem, not a targeting white farmers problem. Small comfort to the farmers and to my mind, semantics.
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