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At the time, IOL reported that thousands of South African Afrikaners had gathered at the US embassy in Pretoria voicing their support for Trump.
Some of the people gathered outside the embassy were seen with posters written: “Mr Donald Trump Thank You Very Much”; “Make South Africa Great Again” and “Recognise the White Nation like Israel was recognised”.
Willem Petzer, who according to his Facebook page is an Afrikaner commentator, posted a video on social media where he said that more than 3,000 people were at the rally.
In a YouTube video, Petzer said that people were there to show their support for Trump’s actions that he had taken against the SA government due to the Expropriation Act.
In a post shared on social media platform X, the US mission in Pretoria said it acknowledges the petition on South Africa’s land policies.
“The US embassy in South Africa received a petition this morning (Saturday) addressed to President Donald Trump, seeking US support to change policies and laws affecting Afikaner (spelling error) community in South Africa.
“We will transmit the full text of the document to the president and secretary of State for immediate action,” the embassy posted in February.
Last month, IOL reported that Trump had made good on his promise to cut funding to South Africa over the government’s land expropriation policy and resettle white farmers whose land will allegedly be expropriated.
In a late-night Executive Order, Trump accused South Africa’s government of “egregious actions” without providing any evidence, saying the recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 would seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.
Trump said this Act followed “countless government policies” designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fuelling disproportionate violence against “racially disfavoured landowners”.
source:List of nearly 70,000 South African Afrikaners seeking relocation as refugees handed to US embassy
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