Trump on South Africa: Loaded with oversights



Some common signs that existed in Johannesburg and all of South Africa in the 1950s to 90s.







Mr. Trump hates immigration.   He strongly feels immigration in North America and Europe is "changing the white culture."  In July this year he told European leaders  "think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad, think you are losing your culture.”  But when land reforms and land redistribution were recently proposed in the South African parliament, Donald Trump went bitchcakes on Twitter August 23  ... "seizing land from white farmers and the  scare rhetoric "white genocide" from white nationalist ring leaders like Jason Kessler.  

The ruckus does not fit the facts.

Did you know?    
In the 1650s when the Dutch (aka Boers) came to occupy South Africa, they fought a series of wars and  imposed western-style bureaucracy grabbing huge swathes of the fertile land in eastern Cape province of the country, including diamond fields.  In 1790s arrived occupier No.2 - the British.   They fought more wars, killed more locals and stole more land.  And there was plenty of rivalry between the two greedy occupiers, vying one with another to steal the maximum.  By early 1800s more than 6,000 British occupiers took away farmlands for themselves in various provinces of South Africa, namely eastern Cape province.    The locals were forced to live as  marginalized underdogs on their own soil.   And now, the indigenous people want (at least some of) those stolen farmlands returned by the white "zamindars and waderas" of South Africa.

Did these white occupiers 'change the black culture?'    They introduced apartheid - strict racial segregation - with  stringent laws and practices and a very different atmosphere.    It's Trump's own argument in support of 'traditionalism' that justifies the land reform proposal in SA parliament.   But the surrealistically prejudiced mind of the white nationalist President won't let him read the facts.   One only needs to ask the British and the Dutch to honestly explain the reasons for turmoil in South Africa today.



"racial segregation in a bayside area in South Africa in the 1970s." Image from DW


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