Afrikaner ‘refugees’ spot a ruse

Last Sunday evening, I had a moment of deep frustration, because our 49 (59? 8 000?) Afrikaner refugees were leaving their homeland in real time and my deadline for Monday’s paper had already passed.

Other refugees should pull their act together

Naturally, I had a lot of thoughts, chiefly, how nice to be refugees with your very own chartered plane courtesy of the country you’re going to, coupled with a vague pride at how healthy our refugees looked: well-nourished, blonde highlights, eyeliner, Oakleys, beer bellies, neat piles of suitcases (no 23kg limit for them), glossy children in fresh pyjamas and slippers ready for the flight… I mean, those dusty, flat-footed refugees from other countries should pull their act together.

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There they are in Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, the DRC, whatever so-called “shi*hole countries” they’re escaping, stringently vetted and finally approved after years of jumping through bureaucratic hoops, yet now they’re stranded by executive order.

But our guys: sjoe! Less than three months, no time even to sell the house. That’s how you do it.

A week on, I’m still wondering if any of them actually abandoned farms, or if they’re all like our Charl Kleinhaus – the chap who once turned anti-Semitic while in hospital on morphine, a situation many refugees will doubtless recognise – who appears to have abandoned only the mortgage on his five-bedroom house in Mpumalanga and presumably left it to Pam Golding to deal with.

He also left behind his mom, his pets and his “many black friends”.

Boerefugees or chancers?

Are these emigrants then opportunists or traumatised victims of violence or, just like many other South Africans, worried and wanting a fresh crack at life? And does it even matter?

Because what they are for certain is pawns, living embodiments of the “great replacement” theory beloved of white supremacists, the alleged covert plan to, as Tucker Carlson put it on Fox News, “change the racial mix of the country” and the western world to usurp white dominance.

That is why Afrikaners are repeatedly said by US President Donald Trump to be victims of an ongoing genocide by murderous black people; a white minority targeted, threatened, attacked, robbed and killed by anonymous dark hordes, the apparent embodiment of this conspiracy.

It’s a blatant untruth, of course – but maybe that’s how these boerefugees really feel. Or maybe they just spotted a ruse. Either way, seriously, good luck to them all.

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