Terrible things are happening in South Africa, said Trump a few weeks ago.
South Africa has been making waves in international media for all the wrong reasons.
Visegrad24 had a dozen South African experts write op-eds to explain the terrible things happening there:
A THREAD 🧵
These documents are housed in the National Library of South Africa.
One is Jan Van Riebeeck's agreement with the KhoiSan for land, and the other between Piet Retief and Dingaan Zulu, who became king after he assassinated his half-brother, Shaka Zulu.
The European settlement in South Africa is well-documented and traces back to the 17th century. This is why Afrikaners/Boers can trace their heritage back basically to the beginning.
There is no land issue regarding the European settlers in South Africa, nor the 1820 British settlers who established towns in the Eastern Cape.
Whats the real percentage of land owned by white farmers in South Africa?
Step 1: Total Land in South Africa
122 million hectares (100%)
Step 2: Land That Whites Do NOT Own
• Government-Owned Land: ~17 million hectares (~14%)
• Ingonyama Trust (Zulu King’s land): ~2.8 million hectares (~2.3%)
• Former Homelands (Communal Land): ~18 million hectares (~14.8%)
• Land Transferred via Land Reform: ~14 million hectares (~11.5%)
• Total non-white-controlled land:
17M + 2.8M + 18M + 14M = 51.8 million hectares (~42.5%)
Step 3: White-Owned Farmland
As of 2017, white South Africans owned 26.6 million hectares of farmland.
Some of this has since been transferred through land reform, but there are no clear updated audits on how much was lost.
Let’s assume somewhere between 20 - 25 million hectares remain under white ownership today.
Step 4: Calculating the Percentage
If white farmers own ~20-25 million hectares, then their farmland ownership is:
Minimum Estimate: (20M / 122M) × 100 = 16.4%
Maximum Estimate: (25M / 122M) × 100 = 20.5%
Final Answer:
White South African farmers today likely own between 16% and 20% of South Africa’s total land.
The 72% figure only applied to private farmland in 2017, but it did not account for state land, communal land, or land reform. The actual percentage of total land owned by white farmers is significantly lower.
That’s the real answer.
Dear President Trump,
On behalf of the Afrikaner people, I sincerely wish to thank you for your executive order pledging the support of your great country as to our human rights. Not only have you provided assistance in our applying for asylum in the U.S., but you have also bolstered our collective and individual rights in South Africa.
In my humble opinion, your order constitutes a watershed moment in our history, akin to the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, acknowledging the rights of Jewish people to a homeland in then British Palestine.
For that, we can only be eternally grateful to you. And dare I say it, in a hostile world, you have become our guardian and protector!
As your order so eloquently states, there are egregious actions being taken by the current regime in our country. We are being specifically targeted as a language and ethnic group; our right to education, to the enjoyment of our culture, our property rights, our ability to do business, as well as our safety and personal security are being trampled upon. A radicalized British-South-African judge, Raylene Keightley, handed down a court order authorizing genocidal propaganda against our people. She has legalized the odious slogan, “Kill a Boer, kill a farmer”, so that it may even be broadcast via radio, TV and on the internet.
In an irony of history, when the rest of the world was freed from communism in 1989, we were soon subjugated by a quasi-communist government that is hostile to us, to America, to the West, to private enterprise and the rule of law. For most of its existence, the ANC has been a front of the South African Communist Party, driven by the ideology of Marx and Lenin.
Without the active support of the ex-Soviet Union, Sweden, the Netherlands, East Germany and the British Labour Party, the ANC would never have come to power in South Africa. Those countries provided finance and explosives to effect a sinister regime change in our country and scupper an existing process of reform and democratisation. Through terrorism and propaganda, including terrible atrocities against black South Africans, the Swedish-Soviet alliance and its ANC proxy sapped the resolve of our previous leaders. The new regime acquired unfettered access to the state and all its resources which it soon set out to loot, plunder and strip to the bone.
Of course, the mainstream media hailed this as a “miracle”; to them the substance and the detail did not matter. These same media, both in America and South Africa, have attacked and defamed you personally. There is probably no country in the world where people, with the exception of us Afrikaners, are so anti-Trump and, by extension, so anti-American.
I have personally suffered for voicing my support and appreciation for your project to save America from wokeness.
For me, there is continuity between the British scorched-earth policy of 1900-1902 and the current campaign to ethnically cleanse us from South Africa. In the war on civilians in South Africa, Britain killed 34 000 of our women and children in concentration camps, as well as another 14 000 black children. Currently, this process is simply being reenacted under another name, sanctioned by leftists who hate our patriotism, family values, faith and honesty.
Many countries in Europe still maintain cultural and other boycotts against us and have made it clear that they consider us to be interlopers in Africa and South Africa. What arrogance, what mendacity! We have been here for almost 400 years, as long as Americans in America.
Through your courageous and benign act, you have reaffirmed our right to exist and to survive, for which we will be forever grateful.
But perhaps you could also help us to remind our enemies that more of our men died defending the West than ever perished defending our own freedom and sovreignty during the World Wars and in Korea.
We salute you, Mr. President!
God bless you and God bless America!
Dan Roodt
Author & activist
Message from a farmers wife in South Africa. Her husband has been killed in front of her and her 6 year old daughter.
2). Pic below of her and her children planting a cross at White Cross Memorial.
@elonmusk
My grandfather’s brother, David de Villiers, was murdered on his farm when I was 17 years old.
And his killer actually wrote in his blood on his wall: “White Devil”,
says @willempet in an interview with V24 founder @StefanTompson about South Africa and his fears for the West.
South Africa's New Expropriation Act: A Marxist-Leninist Power Play
The Expropriation Act is also not only about compensation. It makes expropriation in general much easier for the government to engage in,”
explains South African economist @Martin_ASFL in an op-ed for V24.
Please can someone tell Mariandra and her 4 children that ‘kill the boer’ is just a song.
He was murdered on his farm on South Africa.
“One bullet narrowly missed the-six-year-old daughter as she screamed hysterically, but her daddy Johann, 43, was shot beside her five times.
“They stormed at me and grabbed me up from the couch, demanding that I go with them downstairs. My little girl then put her hand up and offered them her piggy bank”
“At that moment, my husband got up for the last time. He pleaded. I pleaded. They shot him execution style in the head”
#FarmMurders
Nothing beat a South African sunset, with the howl of a jackal in the distance..
My ancestors have been here even before the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. We have built and bled here. Our culture, history and traditions are inextricably attached to Africa.
#BornHereLiveHereDieHere
‼️PLEASE take a minute and listen to the message Yesterday (12/12/2024) from @EFFSouthAfrica leader, Julius Malema.
They don’t hide it anymore. Their message is loud and clear.
Be prepared.
It’s not a song.
It’s called ‘White Cross Monument’
The number of crosses of South African farmers that have been killed grew to just under 3000 last year. Once a year we add new crosses for the farmers killed for that year.
Murder rate Per capita stats:
Global rate 6.1/100.000
South Africa 45/100.000
SA Police Officers 60/100.000
White Farmers 109/100.000
Politicians and Mainstream media say it’s ‘normal crime’. We all know it’s not.
South Africa: 52 year old farmer and his 2 year old son killed earlier this week near Rouxville.
The mother survived.
2 more crosses at White Cross Monument..
How do you kill a 2 year old child?
Normal crime???
In 2023, 45 white farmers were murdered in South Africa, making the murder rate a staggering 150 per 100k, with only 30,000 commercial farmers remaining.
This rate exceeds the US army’s death rate of 120 per 100k during the peak of the Afghanistan-Iraq war in 2009.
The attacks are often racially motivated, with reports of infants being drowned and elderly women tortured.
Politicians such as the EFF’s Julius Malema and ex-president Jacob Zuma have openly called for the killing white farmers.
A memorial has been created for these farmers, the Witskruis Monument, a moving site built on a hill in which every white cross represents a murdered farmer.
Over the past 20 years, over 2,000 farmers have been killed.
Sources: TAU SA, News24, @willempet
The same people who, for the past 30 years, called you a racist for saying the ANC would destroy the country are now confused and can't understand why they don’t have water, electricity, decent roads, or working traffic lights.