The migrants, who claim they are fleeing racial discrimination under South Africa’s post-apartheid government, were granted refugee status under an executive order.
White South African refugees set to arrive at Dulles Airport Monday
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Funny how because they're white all of the sudden liberals don't like refugees
Purely political
But I thought we don't let ..nvm 😒
What did I tell you is not about criminals all that is invented by trump and the nazi administration is about skin color that’s the crime Hispanic committed
If it peeves off leftists, it's obviously something going in the right direction. Good job President Trump!
The amount of racism shown by the left/liberals towards these refugees has opened my eyes. The left are racists towards white people and every action they make is meant to damage white people all around the world. Fucked up stuff. Left is the true racist group.
We will not slaughter whites just yet, says South African firebrand
Economic Freedom Fighters party leader Julius Malema arrives with supporters for a demonstration in Pretoria
Julius Malema told people to occupy white-owned land and said South Africa was controlled from London
MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS
Stuart Graham, Johannesburg
Wednesday November 09 2016, 12.01am, The Times
A radical South African politician is facing a charge of hate speech after saying that whites would not be slaughtered “for now”.
Julius Malema, 35, who leads the Economic Freedom Fighters party, had been in court in Newcastle, in KwaZulu-Natal province, for encouraging his supporters to illegally occupy white-owned land.
Outside the court he told supporters that South Africa was controlled from London and that the Queen held title deeds for vast swathes of its land.
Whites committed “a black genocide” when they arrived in South Africa, he said. “They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals.”
Mr Malema, whose party commands 8 per cent of the popular vote, continued: “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is the peaceful occupation of the land and we don’t owe anyone an apology for that.”
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He is due to appear in court again on December 7. He insisted that he had done nothing wrong and that the charges against him were an attempt by President Zuma and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to eradicate political opposition.
“White minorities, be warned,” he said. “We will take our land. It doesn’t matter how. It’s coming, unavoidable. The land will be taken by whatever means necessary.”
Mr Malema, a fierce admirer of President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, was expelled from the ANC in April 2012 after, among other transgressions, calling for the invasion of Botswana.
In February 2012 he was convicted of hate speech for repeatedly leading his supporters in singing Shoot the Boer. He later faced charges of fraud, money laundering and racketeering and in 2013 he was forced to auction his mansion in the plush Johannesburg suburb of Sandton to pay his tax bill.
“We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man’s peace, because we have not known peace,” he said. “We don’t know what peace looks like. They have been swimming in a pool of privilege. They have been enjoying themselves because they always owned our land.”
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He said that there were still pieces of land in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and other rural provinces whose title deeds were owned by the Queen. “The ANC do not know how to take the title deeds from the Queen in London,” he said.
Civil rights organisations and opposition political parties said that Mr Malema’s remarks would inflame racial tension in South Africa, which is still deeply divided 22 years after the end of apartheid, when Nelson Mandela was elected as its first black president. AfriForum, an organisation that represents minorities in South Africa, said that it had instructed its legal team to take action against Mr Malema for making the comments. One of the options the organisation has is to lay a charge of hate speech and incitement to commit violence.
Ernst Roets, its deputy chief executive, said: “It is evident that Malema drives a populist agenda and that he does not heed the realities that South Africa faces, or the sustainability of his proposed solutions. His only priority is his own political career.”
The Freedom Front Plus party said that by encouraging people to occupy land illegally, Mr Malema was encouraging civil war. Pieter Groenewald, the party chairman, said: “Malema and the EFF should take note that white landowners will not just meekly sit and watch how their land is occupied and taken away.”
The Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s largest opposition party, said that Mr Malema’s “violent and threatening language” had no place in South Africa’s constitutional democracy.
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Wow . There is no White Genocide here , a lot of white people agree .Watch South African news , listen to South Africans , in South Africa
Black lies matter!💩😈🚽🪠
What a joke. 😂. These guys now still own land in SA and profit from this. How on earth is this asylum seeking ? This is the biggest money laundering scheme ever lol
these MFs don't deserve to breathe the same air as black americans
Never thought I’d say to white people to go back to Africa.
Thank-you President Trump. The predictable leftist meltdown is so entertaining.
One group will work, another group will steal
Thousands of Haitians and millions of illegal Central Americans and unnamed nobodies complain about dozens of south Africans. It's puzzling.
yeah , lets never ever help white people in need
We welcome the South Africans 💯
The media's mad about whites "colonizing" South Africa in the past, now they're mad about whites leaving. There's literally nothing whites can do to make these people happy. This is about hate, not justice.
Plaasmoorde: The Killing Fields (2018) Katie Hopkins' documentary about South Africa. Youtube
Love white love… thank u Trump.. 🎉🎉we need more good people
Go through YouTube and the only ones that are complaining and whining are black people like white people should not exist because oh no we don't have a culture and they're better than we are not