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White South African Refugees: Should Afrikaners Stay and Fight? (WATCH)

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Last week, America accepted its first wave of White South African refugees into the country. The 59 Afrikaners were accepted under Trump's new policy to protect them from racial discrimination in South Africa.

Despite the left-wing media's claims that White South Africans are not facing any prejudice, there are now 142 anti-White race-based laws, which is more than at the height of apartheid. Newly signed-off laws include a land seizure bill, in which the government can take land from Afrikaners without compensation whenever it decides that it's 'just and equitable and in the public interest' to do so.

Also, Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa's far-left party called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has repeatedly led political rallies with chants of "kill the Boer." He later tried to explain this to Western media by saying 'We have not called for the killing of the Boer right NOW."

Not only is this rhetoric troubling coming from a political leader, but many Afrikaners already have to live in fear of torturous, gruesome farm attacks from Black South Africans, which have already taken the lives of thousands of Whites since the end of Apartheid.

Understandably, some Afrikaners have chosen to take refuge in America, where many of their families received threats on their lives. However, others plan to stay in South Africa and work to create a home where their children can safely live.

Joost Styrdom is the leader of the Orania movement, a project that is working to expand a privately-owned community of 3,000 in South Africa where Afrikaners can maintain a demographic majority. He joined RiftTV to explain that while Afrikaners are grateful to Trump for the urgency of his reaction to their plight, what is really needed from Americans is not refugee status or cash handouts but political awareness of the situation that White South Africans are in.

"Obviously there are many Afrikaners who would like to go, and we don't blame them– the situation in South Africa is dire and they should have such an option. But for us, we want a place of our own where we can be a people, we are a people, and a people need a place," explained Joost.

Joost requested that the Trump administration, as well as any Americans who are concerned about the ongoing genocide, follow the directive to "help us here." He doesn't want his people to run away and lose their nation, identity, and home– he wants them to reclaim it.

Sarah Stock

Sarah is a political commentator, street interviewer, debater, and contributor for RiftTV. She has previously contributed to Rebel News and the Babylon Bee.

Orange County, California

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