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The Potgieter family were brutally murdered on their farm in the Free State, South Africa.
The father, Attie, had 151 stab wounds. A pathologist said he had been tortured to death. His wife, Wilna, suffered lacerations to her head and was shot in the neck.
Their two-year-old girl, Wilmien, had a cut to her head made with a sharp instrument before she was shot in the back of the head at close range.
When South Africa’s President says, “There are no killings of White farmers in South Africa,” and the liberal media dismisses this as a racist conspiracy, spare a thought for Attie and Wilna Potgieter and their beautiful baby girl, Wilmien.
They deserved so much better.
The United States remains gravely concerned about racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination occurring against the Afrikaners and other minority populations in South Africa, including race-based discriminatory legislation, threats of land expropriation without compensation, and incitement of racial violence through dehumanizing chants and slogans.
https://t.co/HdadCjCjq4
As has been made absolutely clear, the time for endless “dialogue” has run its course. No more. America has just so much patience. We want strong, and lasting relations with the South African government. It needs to show it wants the same. So far it has shown it cares for neither. As a result, the consequences, as I’ve attempted time and again to express, are necessarily going to be severe. This visa restriction policy is only the first step in a series of escalatory measures that will show America’s firm resolve in this matter.
As @POTUS has made clear, the South African people are being failed by a government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against the Afrikaner minority. The South African government has consistently failed to adequately address rural crime, violent and dehumanizing rhetoric, and race-based discriminatory policies against Afrikaners and other minority populations.
Today, I’m announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign nationals who enact or enable policies that promote race-based discrimination, incite violence, or enable land confiscation without compensation in South Africa. Those responsible for these injustices have no place in the United States. https://t.co/aSTn73Punn
The Durban conference was an utter failure. Worse, it platformed and promoted antisemitism, anti-capitalism, anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism. The UN continues to poison its brand by commemorating Durban. @AmbUNReform
In tribute to the white farmers who have been persecuted and murdered in South Africa.
“Ô Sarie Mares,” our French folk rendition of the renowned traditional Afrikaner song Sarie Marais, with my friend @Erga3x.
(You’ll find the link to our European folk music channel below.)
🇿🇦 Pieter Buys, a well-known mango farmer from Tzaneen, and former chairman of the South African Mango Growers’ Association, is recovering after being attacked on his farm.
The attacker struck Buys twice in the back of the head with a machete before attempting to strike his face. Buys grabbed the blade, overpowered the suspect, and held him until farm workers arrived.
Police are investigating the incident.
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