Thousands of South African Afrikaners gathered outside the US Embassy in Pretoria to express their support for Donald Trump.
The people gathered outside the embassy were seen with posters that said"Mr Donald Trump Thank You Very Much' and" 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.
The Act is clear that only barren and un-used land is at risk of being expropriated, while productive land was not at risk. Speaking to AFP on Saturday, Walter Wobben, a 52-year-old owner farmer in the Western Cape province when referring to the descendants of Dutch settlers said:the first time we've seen in my lifetime that a foreign president stands up for the Afrikaner people like what we've seen him do, so we have to support this.
We are the Afrikaners saying to President Trump we are all the way with you sir today in Pretoria at the USA 🇺🇸 Embassyto “prioritise humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination”.
“We have not, or will not call for sanctions against South Africa or that funds for vulnerable people be cut off by the US government,” Solidarity Movement's chairman, Flip Buys said. “For the white Afrikaners it is not going to be a very good to move there looking for greener pastures,” he said.
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