NKENKE KEKANA | Unravelling the twisted race classification of the ‘regte Afrikaners’
It is ironic that the architects of apartheid colonialism today cry foul for being discriminated against because of their race
26 February 2025 - 04:30
US President Donald Trump's recent executive order inviting “the ethnic minority descendants of settler groups” to that country has sparked an unprecedented debate about race in South Africa. Trump and South African-born billionaire Elon Musk have offered refugee status to the “disfavoured minorities” whose “properties are being seized without compensation”. This bizarre offer is assumed to target white Afrikaner people though the order does not specifically mention Afrikaners...
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