Donald Trump's recent offer of political asylum to South Africa's white minority follows an executive order mischaracterizing the country's land reform efforts as discriminatory against Afrikaners. This narrative has been propelled by Afrikaner lobbying group AfriForum, which claims that white farmers face political violence and land seizure. However, the reforms aim to correct longstanding disparities stemming from apartheid, where a mere 7% of South Africans own 70% of agricultural land. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled AfriForum leaders as white supremacists. Elon Musk, also linked to Trump's circle, similarly pushes the victim narrative while pursuing business interests.
Trump's executive order misrepresents South Africa's Expropriation Act, wrongly portraying it as a racist measure against white Afrikaners while ignoring historical inequality.
The SPLC criticizes AfriForum, the group lobbying for white Afrikaners, as a white supremacist organization promoting unfounded conspiracy theories about white genocide.
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