US has let in 4,499 refugees since October - all but three were South African

Utter woke nonsense

Yeah they know the “struggle”

My buddy Johann would tell me to say "siff iffrika"

We're calling it The Great Tsek

We're not sending our best.

The Reuters article includes information that demonstrates an increase in interest in return, which I'll include below. [This article](https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/first-afrikaner-refugee-returns-to-south-africa-resettlement-programme/) describes the first known refugee to return home (after her family didn't move with her) and includes reasoning on why refugees might face barriers to travel from USCIS, impeding their ability to repatriate. "Two recruitment agencies that help expats relocate said the number of inquiries had jumped, and Reuters spoke to 10 South Africans who had either returned or were planning to, seven of them from across Europe and three from the United States." "Anton van Heerden, CEO of employment agency DNA Employer of Record, said inquiries from white South Africans seeking to return had jumped 70% in the past six months. Angel Jones, CEO of Johannesburg-based recruitment firm HomecomingEx, reported a roughly 30% rise in inquiries since 2024."

Thats a massive misrepresentation.

A lot of them were from bumfuck nowhere in South Africa also. 

They also probably think it'll be good for them because MAGA is trying to bring back apartheid.

Certain US “news” outlets have been lying for years that immigrants are being given everything they want for free. They are the onion, then the leopards ate their face.

But without the immigrant experience of being judged for the color of your skin...

Yeah, if they were actually refugees.

The only imminent danger I see is if these Afrikaners were acting like bigoted, racist plantation owners ignoring that Apartheid there ended more than 30 years ago. It's my guess they were the equivalent of MAGA here in the US.

> That really depends on where you are in the country Well.. there is not a lot of violent crimes in much of the US as well so how is that an argument? Even the safer areas in South Africa are quite dangerous by American standards.

Exactly! I grew up Mormon, and many boys were told on their mission "the more baptisms you get, the hotter your wife will be."

I tell them that is God's plan for the non religious. The plan for him is to watch.

This is a fact. My sister and I are the only two members of our family who have a BMI in the normal range, and we got bullied so damn much for it, both of us cut the family off 15 years ago.

I actually feel a bit bad for Kris Marshall that that dumb character is what most Americans know him for. He's brilliant in the early seasons of "My Family" and the several detective shows he's been in.

I actually am Canadian and trust me we get lumped together when I tell people I’m Canadian not American.

I am a terrible liar and it’s written all over my face when I do. I can’t use that excuse abroad. So I just say California and hope my actions of respecting the place I’m visiting will speak louder than the world’s disdain of where I’m from.

Speak for yourselves. I'm a lib and have no shame saying I'm American when I'm abroad and people ask. I'm not gonna apologize or feel shame for having no choice in where I was born. And to be totally honest, lying about being Canadian is a b**** move that I'm sure real Canadians don't appreciate. Just enjoy your vacation and stop worrying about the opinions of people you're never going to see again and who likely don't actually care where you're from.

And you're still not fooling anyone

Back in the late 80s I was in a pub in Amsterdam with my brother. We were having a good time and just acting like normal people out at a bar. When they were about to close the bartender called us over and handed us each a Canadian flag pins. So I put it on my hat since it was a gift and why would you be a d*** about a weird gift from someone in a bar? It wasn't until months later that I realized what that was all about. Edit: My brother reminded me that we were travelling all over Europe while the World Cup was in Italy and that is why we didn't go to Italy. So we'd sight see all day and then find a bar in the evening to watch the games.

If anything people are pleasantly surprised when they meet Americans who arnt assholes.

Yeah in my travels abroad I get more “I’m so sorry” rather than “f*** yous.” The latter are just little people who have little worldviews and would probably be trumpers if they were born in the US 🤷‍♂️ Probably does help that I explicitly tell people I’m from California when asked.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/fact-check-white-farmers-south-africa-trump https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wg5pg1xp5o https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-hillside-of-white-crosses-fuels-a-misleading-story-about-south-africas-farm-killings Long story short, yes the "theory" about violence against white farmers in South Africa has been around for a while, but it was usually spread by white nationalists and then was boosted by Trump saying it to the president of South Africa and insisting it was true even after the President of South Africa debunked his points to his face.

It was mostly "white farmers", but turns out barely any farmers die year per year, and most murders in the country were black to black due to the country going to some actual bad times unrelated to any kind of genocide. To give you a number, the supposed farmer deaths were 0.001% of the yearly murders in the country, with even less of those farmers being white.

lol- I had a professor in South Africa who said the traffic from the football or rugby matches or something was messing up her commute to church and therefore it was christian discrimination. I have to imagine it was tongue and check and something got lost in cultural translation. I'm an American and she was a white lady originally from Germany.

Christians won’t miss an opportunity to tell everyone they’re being persecuted. Don’t dismiss it so easily

Also, importantly, the new law is not a blanket allowance to seize land. > The new law allows for expropriation without compensation only in circumstances where it is "just and equitable and in the public interest" to do so. [...] "Expropriation may not be exercised unless the expropriating authority has without success attempted to reach an agreement with the owner," https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o Also given the history of land "distribution" in the country, I can understand why the government wants a tool to take some of that land back if there are legitimate public interest purposes they can argue in court.