Mexico opened the 2026 World Cup with a 2-0 victory over South Africa on Thursday in Mexico City, capitalizing on an early defensive mistake and a second-half red card.
Mexico’s Julián Quiñones scored the tournament&#8217;s first goal in the eighth minute after South Africa’s midfielder Sphephelo S’miso “Yaya” Sithole lost possession just outside the penalty area, allowing Mexico to take an early 1-0 lead. The mistake directly led to the first goal of the 2026 World Cup.
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South Africa prevented Mexico from adding to its advantage for the remainder of the first half, but the match swung further in Mexico&#8217;s favor shortly after halftime.
Sithole was shown a red card five minutes into the second half, the ejection reducing South Africa to 10 men for the remainder of the match. The turnover that led to Mexico&#8217;s opening goal and the early red card made Sithole a central figure in South Africa&#8217;s defeat.
Mexico eventually doubled its lead in the 67th minute when Raúl Jiménez scored on a header to give Mexico a 2-0 lead. 
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The victory gives Mexico an early advantage in Group A, while South Africa will now look to rebound against Czechia next week. 
Sithole, who finished the opening game with three fouls and was ejected in the second half, will be suspended for South Africa&#8217;s next match on Thursday.

Mexico v South Africa: Group A – FIFA World Cup 2026

South African Sithole Has Nightmare Start To World Cup

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When South African refugees were told they would be shown videos on how to assimilate to American culture, they expected a crash course in local customs and habits they may not have known.
Instead, they sat wide-eyed as they watched videos teaching them how to shower, use a toilet, and brush their teeth.
Several Afrikaners, members of South Africa&#8217;s white minority to whom President Donald Trump has granted special refugee status, told The Daily Wire they were shocked by the videos.
&#8220;When we were watching it, we laughed at a lot of these videos and made comedic remarks because they pointed out the obvious regarding not going to the bathroom outside and how to use a microwave even,&#8221; said Adriaan, an Afrikaner refugee who arrived in December. &#8220;We found it very funny, but we understood as well the idea of like people from Somalia who&#8217;ve never had electricity &#8230; they were mostly made for people that can&#8217;t speak English, that have never lived in a first world country.&#8221;
&#8220;It was just plain ridiculous,&#8221; Marie, another Afrikaner refugee, said.
The videos are produced by an initiative of the nonprofit organization the International Rescue Committee, which is called SettleIn. The program boasts that its content was &#8220;developed under agreements financed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families and Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, United States Department of State,&#8221; according to its website.
SettleIn&#8217;s website adds that its content does not &#8220;necessarily represent the policies or official views of those agencies and should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.&#8221;
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One of the videos on SettleIn&#8217;s YouTube channel promotes &#8220;personal hygiene,&#8221; saying that &#8220;In the United States, this means taking regular showers or baths, applying deodorant daily, washing and grooming hair, and washing clothes frequently.&#8221;
&#8220;Only toilet paper should be flushed down the toilet,&#8221; it adds.
The video goes on to say that &#8220;practicing proper personal hygiene promotes good health, prevents the spread of diseases, and may influence relationships with others,&#8221; adding: &#8220;Personal hygiene is also important for getting and keeping a job.&#8221;
An accompanying <a href="https://www.settleinus.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/English_Hygiene-in-the-US_factsheet-low-res.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guide</a> also advises refugees against urinating and spitting &#8220;in public.&#8221; It also instructs them to &#8220;wear clothing that is clean,&#8221; &#8220;wash hands when they are dirty, after using the bathroom, and before and after eating,&#8221; and to &#8220;use a tissue, not your hand or the sleeve of your shirt&#8221; to wipe a runny nose.
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Another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xv4ylUdHBg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> advises refugees not to run from the police during encounters with law enforcement.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t run or reach for anything suddenly,&#8221; the video advises.
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One of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLFYsEq5su4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">videos</a> features a refugee woman telling her fellow newcomers that homes in the United States are &#8220;not like when we are back home living in the refugee camps, you have to be so clean person, clean your home, take your trash out.&#8221;
The International Rescue Committee, which partners with the federal government as part of its U.S. Refugee Admission Program (USRAP), has <a href="https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-deeply-troubled-refugee-resettlement-slots-one-nationality?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the Trump administration&#8217;s refugee policy to decrease refugee admissions and to prioritize white Afrikaners facing racial persecution in South Africa.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> USRAP on January 20, 2025, and subsequently terminated agreements with refugee aid nonprofits, including the <a href="https://www.rescue.org/article/how-have-trump-policies-impacted-refugees?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Rescue Committee (IRC)</a>.
A federal judge initially blocked the suspension in early 2025 and ordered the government to reinstate its agreements with resettlement groups like the IRC. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled the administration could lawfully suspend refugee admissions, but it left in place the requirement that the government keep funding domestic services for refugees already in the country.
SettleIn is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to the International Rescue Committee <a href="https://www.rescue.org/page/us-program-offerings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. It is part of the committee&#8217;s Switchboard, which provides training to refugee support organizations and case managers, which is &#8220;100% financed by federal funds,&#8221; citing an <a href="https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=90RB0053&amp;arg_ProgOfficeCode=40&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Refugee Resettlement grant</a> that has provided the organization more than $20 million in taxpayer funds since 2023.
The program offers some practical advice on filing one&#8217;s taxes, obtaining a driver&#8217;s license, and buying and renting a residence in the United States.
It also provides a cultural guide for refugee organizations and case workers on working with Afrikaner refugees. The packet neglects to mention the racially motivated killings of white farmers in South Africa and other race-based laws discriminating against Afrikaners.
The guide paints Afrikaners as settlers who took part in &#8220;displacing native peoples,&#8221; which it said in combination with the British Empire holding Afrikaners and black Africans in concentration camps &#8220;helped consolidate a concept of Afrikaner nationalism through collective suffering at the hands of the British.&#8221;
&#8220;From 1948 to 1994, Afrikaners participated in establishing and implementing the South African government’s system of Apartheid, a regime of racial segregation. In the post-Apartheid era, South Africans including Afrikaners continue to grapple with issues of identity, reconciliation, and socio-economic transformation,&#8221; the guide reads.
Such federally-funded programs &#8220;are intended to support refugees from a broad range of countries of origin, educational backgrounds, languages, and lived experiences,&#8221; a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Office of Refugee Resettlement-funded resources, including those developed by technical assistance providers, provide practical information to help refugees navigate daily life in the United States, including topics such as healthcare, education, transportation, housing, employment, and other essential services,&#8221; the spokesman said.
&#8220;Some materials also provide information about common household and community practices in the United States, recognizing that refugees arrive with varying levels of familiarity with U.S. systems, institutions, and cultural norms,&#8221; the official added.
In a statement, the IRC said &#8220;SettleIn and Switchboard are resources designed to support the full range of refugees resettling in the United States—a population that comes from dozens of countries, speaks hundreds of languages, and arrives with enormously varied backgrounds and levels of familiarity with American systems and infrastructure.&#8221;
The videos, the organization said, &#8220;are intentionally comprehensive so that resettlement organizations can use what is relevant for the populations they serve, and resettling refugees can access the information most helpful to them.&#8221;
Refugee names have been changed. Blake Schaper contributed to this report.

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Taxpayer-Funded ‘Cultural Orientation’ Program Teaches Refugees How To Shower And Use A Toilet

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Editor&#8217;s note: Names have been changed to protect the identities of the Afrikaner refugees.
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Marie and her family fled racial persecution against white Afrikaners in South Africa nearly one year ago, hoping for a better life in the United States.
She, her husband, and 15-year-old daughter were resettled as refugees in Chicago, where they soon realized that the nonprofits tasked with helping them didn&#8217;t care to support well-educated, English-speaking refugees.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not actually sure why they&#8217;re getting any federal funding and promising the U.S. that they are delivering services, that they&#8217;re not,&#8221; Marie told The Daily Wire in a recent interview.
She and her family were among the first arrivals to the United States under the Trump administration&#8217;s resettlement program for white Afrikaners.
In February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prioritize Afrikaner refugees “who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” to the United States. Afrikaners, an ethnic minority in South Africa, descended from Dutch and French settlers.
President Donald Trump has asserted there&#8217;s a genocide in South Africa against white Afrikaners and recently expanded the program to allow roughly 17,500 refugees into the United States annually.
When Marie and her family landed in Chicago, a refugee nonprofit placed them in a hotel that was full of &#8220;druggies&#8221; and left them there for nearly a month, she said.
&#8220;They didn&#8217;t bring us anything, no food, no basic necessities, nothing,&#8221; Marie said.
&#8220;They just honestly didn&#8217;t care&#8230; they hated us. They literally asked us why are we here because there are refugees in Kenya that have been waiting for 35 years to come to the U.S., so what makes us so special,&#8221; she said.
Marie soon realized that the refugee aid workers in the area resented white Afrikaners and were &#8220;reluctant&#8221; to help them because they spoke English and could more easily assimilate to American culture.
&#8220;They literally told me they were prepared to resettle Afghans and they have been the past 18 years in the business of resettling Afghans, and we are not Afghan, so they don&#8217;t know what to do with us or help us,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;They only focused on teaching them how to use a toilet, how to brush their teeth, how to use shampoo in showering &#8230; not to poop in the garden,&#8221; she added.
The Daily Wire spoke with several other resettled Afrikaner refugees who were also left to their own devices by groups tasked with resettling refugees.
Without the help of refugee aid workers, Marie and her husband made their own appointments to obtain driver&#8217;s licenses and Social Security numbers. She said the only thing they were able to get from the resettlement group was their work permits.
But they still struggled for four months to find jobs because the only employment opportunities they could find wanted Spanish speakers. The only work the refugee organization could offer was scrubbing toilets at Trump Hotel, which would&#8217;ve been an hours-long commute in city traffic.
&#8220;It felt like Mexico,&#8221; Marie said, adding that she complained to the refugee center, which told her that she should just &#8220;learn Spanish&#8221; to get employment.
&#8220;They really wanted to make life miserable for us,&#8221; she added.
The family eventually packed up and left for Georgia, where Marie&#8217;s husband was able to find stable work in accounting.
She said Georgia &#8220;is a million times better.&#8221;
Adriaan arrived in Lewiston, Maine, in December to start a new life in the safety of the United States, but like Marie he quickly realized that there wasn&#8217;t much support for Afrikaners.
&#8220;At the beginning, there were so many other individuals from Africa and I just wondered, they&#8217;ve been here for months and months on end, but looks like nobody has a job. And that&#8217;s what really scared me because I just saw people living off the government,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what we want to do, most South Africans don&#8217;t want that,&#8221; he added.
The nonprofit group tasked with Adriaan&#8217;s resettlement, Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services (MEIRS), said they were unable to help him find work or move toward self-sufficiency, he said. The aid workers at MEIRS eventually told him that they didn&#8217;t &#8220;know what to do with us, because [they&#8217;ve] never had South Africans,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I stayed at that hotel for more than two weeks and I was just waiting for something to happen,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s no real empathy or care towards South African refugees,&#8221; he said.
MEIRS has taken on about 35 Afrikaner refugees since November, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/05/22/trump-offered-white-south-africans-new-life-thousands-took-him-up-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post. Its executive director, Rilwan Osman, was recently asked why he&#8217;s assisting white South Africans. He &#8220;demurred&#8221; and said &#8220;don&#8217;t ask me, ask the president&#8221; as he laughed.
A previous state audit of MEIRS reportedly found that the group over-billed MaineCare, the state&#8217;s Medicaid program, by roughly $2.4 million, <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2025/12/feds-probe-little-mogadishu-locations-linked-to-alleged-somali-medicaid-fraud-gun-crimes-in-lewiston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Maine Wire.
After spending nearly a month and a half without work, Adriaan left on his own for Texas, where he quickly found a job and a stable lifestyle.
&#8220;It was a lot better,&#8221; Adriaan said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to be in the US. I&#8217;m happy to be here. I have respect for the people here, and I think most South Africans do because it&#8217;s not just a ticket we got to a better life. It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re grateful for, something we want to give back to as well,&#8221; he said.
MEIRS didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment and couldn&#8217;t be reached by phone as their number was disconnected.
Rich arrived in Connecticut in March with his wife and three teenage kids. When they arrived, they were placed in a hotel by the Jewish Family Services (JFS) nonprofit organization in Greenwich, Connecticut, which left them there for five days without contacting them to begin their search for more permanent housing and employment, he said.
&#8220;Now, we are a family of five, so which means we got about $12,500 resettlement money, so that&#8217;s for the whole family together. Now, if you can imagine, five people having to rent two double rooms, and your first five days, you have no contact. You just had an hotel, nothing is done. That eats up a lot of your resettlement money,&#8221; Rich said.
When JFS finally took Rich and his family to find housing, they showed them apartments in drug-infested neighborhoods where the streets were riddled with needles, he said. JFS presented the units as their only options.
Rich then found housing outside JFS&#8217; offerings, but double-checked with a JFS caseworker who confirmed &#8220;It&#8217;s a great area&#8221; and that &#8220;there&#8217;s no other options.&#8221;
Three days after the family moved in, a group of drug addicts tried to break into the home while his daughter, 19, was home. They used drugs on the porch, where they left paraphernalia.
Rich decided that was enough, found a job in Pennsylvania that would accept him as he awaited a Social Security number, and began moving out of the home with the help of a JFS caseworker. While they were moving furniture, a group of burglars &#8220;with big crow bars&#8221; broke into their garage.
&#8220;That was the second break in in a week,&#8221; Rich said.
Since then, the family has been living for weeks in Airbnbs and has used up their resettlement funds on the days-long hotel stay and their first apartment, which they&#8217;re still awaiting JFS to help them secure a refund of their deposits, which amounted to $7,500.
&#8220;Everything was just wasted by Jewish Family Services,&#8221; Rich said.
&#8220;We understand we&#8217;re going to have to sacrifice, but we cannot sacrifice our safety and that is where the problem comes in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been placed in dangerous areas. Our money is being wasted in hotels. And this is just our story.&#8221;
Upon arriving in Pennsylvania, Rich said he reached out to the local refugee aid nonprofits, but received no help.
As of publication, Rich and his family have yet to receive Social Security numbers, driver&#8217;s licenses, or Medicaid, he said.
&#8220;I have reached out to every single resettlement agency in Pennsylvania and none of them were willing to help us,&#8221; he said.
In a statement shared with The Daily Wire, JFS Greenwich CEO Rachel Kornfeld said that the organization &#8220;administers programs in accordance with the funding, eligibility, and service requirements established by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and other government agencies.&#8221;
Rich eventually contacted Mike Morris, a private citizen and emergency room doctor near Philadelphia who&#8217;s stepped in to assist Afrikaner refugees. Morris was able to secure housing for Rich at an Airbnb he owns and employment for the family at one of the hospitals he serves.
&#8220;We have been fielding calls and helping refugees in need around the country. Even just logistics for them is helpful. Rich reached out as he was moving close to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was good timing because one of my properties was about to be vacant. We had an Afrikaner refugee family graduating our program so it worked out really well. We already have four jobs for Rich and his family. They’re fully employed.&#8221;
Out of frustration with the current nonprofit infrastructure for refugees, Morris started his own group Keystone Refugee Services. Morris told The Daily Wire that the &#8220;neglect and at times outright disdain&#8221; NGOs purporting to help Afrikaner refugees across the country &#8220;only strengthened&#8221; his &#8220;resolve&#8221; to meet new arrivals&#8217; needs.
&#8220;It has only strengthened my resolve. These are industrious English speaking people, they want to work and want to assimilate. The barriers that are in their way are mostly manufactured either via government agency bottlenecks or more often nonprofit neglect and discrimination. This is why we are trying to reform this system to an outcome based model,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;If non-profit resettlement agencies can’t launch refugees to financial independence they don’t deserve funding. Americans need to rethink the purpose of this program and how it best serves our country,&#8221; he added.

Trump Administration Grants Refugee Status To Afrikaners From South Africa

Left-Wing NGOs Aren’t So Helpful To White Refugees

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The White House raised the annual refugee admission cap by 10,000 as the Trump administration continues to prioritize the resettlement of white Afrikaners fleeing persecution from South Africa.
A presidential determination signed May 21 cited &#8220;an unforeseen emergency refugee situation&#8221; caused by &#8220;the incitement of racially motivated violence on the part of the government of South Africa and leaders of prominent political parties&#8221; against white Afrikaners as his justification for the change.
The directive raises annual refugee admissions to roughly 17,500 people.
Afrikaners, a minority in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-group-leaves-white-south-african-refugees-out-to-dry-while-fighting-trump-in-court?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Leftist+Group+Leaves+White+South+African+Refugees+Out+To+Dry+While+Fighting+Trump+In+Court">South Africa</a>, are largely descended from Dutch and French settlers.
The document, <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10598.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> in the Federal Register, also cited &#8220;new disruptions of United States Refugee Admissions Program operations in South Africa&#8221; as a need for the increase.
The Daily Wire recently spoke with several Afrikaners approved for the refugee resettlement whose flights to the United States were canceled after they had already received travel documents and airline tickets.
The Afrikaners placed much of the blame on the left-leaning nonprofit group Church World Service (CWS), which is contracted to assist refugees during their application and resettlement process. CWS has taken the Trump administration to court to challenge its “discriminatory preference for white Afrikaners.”
Despite the ongoing litigation, CWS still plays a role in processing Afrikaner refugee cases through its Resettlement Support Center Africa program.
One Afrikaner woman told The Daily Wire she applied for refugee status in May 2025 and received her airline tickets in January, only to be notified by CWS that her trip had been canceled days before her scheduled departure.
She remains stuck in South Africa after quitting her full-time job and selling off her belongings.
“It’s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,” she said.
After returning to office, Trump moved to reduce overall refugee admissions, lowering the cap from 125,000 to 7,500 annually.
All but three of the 6,069 refugees resettled in the United States since October were Afrikaners, <a href="https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2057861577009664018?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post.
Trump himself has said that Afrikaners are victims of a racial genocide in South Africa.
He also confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last year after he denied the existence of a genocide in his country.
During the interaction, Trump played footage of South African politician Julius Malema singing “Kill the Boer” during a political rally, a chant critics say incites violence against Afrikaners.

President Trump Meets With South African President Cyril Ramaphosa At The White House

Trump Expands Protections For South African Refugees

Andre, his wife, and their six-year-old son were approved to leave South Africa and come to the United States as refugees more than 200 days ago.
&#8220;Literally three days before departure, they cancelled the tickets and said don&#8217;t make any drastic changes. That was too late, we were already totally committed for the program,&#8221; Andre, who requested that his full name be withheld due to threats, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We gave away everything &#8230; we basically used up all our savings, we are close to being on the street,&#8221; he said.
Andre&#8217;s story is just one of many Afrikaners — South Africa&#8217;s white population — who were approved to come to the United States as refugees escaping racial persecution, received airline tickets, and then had their trips cancelled. The Daily Wire spoke with several approved refugees who remain stuck in South Africa, with no answers.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 to allow Afrikaners, &#8220;who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,&#8221; into the United States as refugees and to prioritize their admissions.
All the while, Trump cut total annual refugee admissions from 125,000 to 7,500.
Trump is said to be considering increasing the annual refugee cap to 17,500 to support more white Afrikaners, CNN <a href="https://x.com/priscialva/status/2056525692041298122?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Monday. It&#8217;s not clear if that would help the many Afrikaners who are stuck in limbo.
Afrikaners are an ethnic minority in South Africa who descended from Dutch and French Huguenot settlers. The Trump administration has said they&#8217;re victims of a racial genocide in South Africa.
Last May, Trump confronted the South African president, who denied the existence of a white genocide, during a visit to Washington by showing him video of calls to violence by government officials in South Africa.
One clip featured in the video showed Julius Malema, a member of South Africa’s National Assembly, singing “Kill the Boer” at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.
Trump&#8217;s refugee policy changes prompted left-leaning groups like the Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based group, to take the Trump administration to court <a href="https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/refugees-challenge-discriminatory-preference-for-white-afrikaners" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/refugees-challenge-discriminatory-preference-for-white-afrikaners&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1779198166394000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3lWdz3J4H0CDSvX8N58ozN">challenging</a> its &#8220;discriminatory preference for white Afrikaners.&#8221;
Despite suing the government, CWS is now playing an integral role in the Trump administration&#8217;s refugee resettlement program for Afrikaners through its Resettlement Support Center Africa (RSC). The nonprofit organization has worked with the federal government to resettle refugees since 1980.
Trump attempted to freeze funding and cancelled contracts to organizations involved in refugee resettlement, like CWS, but some of the attempts have been blocked by courts.
The federal government has shelled out more than $246 million in grants to the organization, with the funds making up roughly 87% of the group&#8217;s income, <a href="https://cwsglobal.org/about/financials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cwsglobal.org/about/financials/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1779198166394000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2T4c0im7UOIgGWZp5hAhD8">according</a> to its website.
The Afrikaners notified by CWS that their one-way tickets to the United States were canceled said the organization has left them in the dark regarding the fate of their cases. In many instances, their medical evaluations expired, forcing them to redo that part of the process, which for some means taking hours-long drives and booking hotel stays to complete new vaccinations and testing.
Some of them had already sold their cars after being told they would leave the country within days or weeks.
The overseas medical exams are valid for only six months, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7102a1.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7102a1.htm?utm_source%3Dchatgpt.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1779198166394000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2zGFm66PE_ddzl3QKgs4SH">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Andre, who was set to be resettled in Fort Worth, Texas, described CWS&#8217; role in the resettlement of Afrikaners as &#8220;horrific,&#8221; saying &#8220;they do not respond to any emails &#8230; you can&#8217;t call them, you can&#8217;t ask for any information.&#8221;
&#8220;If you do get a reply back it&#8217;s an automated response,&#8221; Andre said.
One Afrikaner woman, who requested anonymity for her safety, applied for refugee status in May 2025 and received her flight tickets in January.
&#8220;I was very, very happy, very grateful and I was ready to go. I rushed home, packed up everything, got rid of everything,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire.
Days before her scheduled departure, CWS notified her that her trip had been canceled and that her case &#8220;went back to in progress.&#8221;
By that time, she had already quit her full-time job and gotten rid of most of her belongings. She remains stuck in South Africa.
&#8220;We got an email saying now we&#8217;re under review now and since then it&#8217;s been dead silence,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,&#8221; she added.
Her medical evaluation then expired in April and she had to go back and redo the required testing and vaccinations.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes the cases, didn&#8217;t respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire that &#8220;President Trump has been very clear that we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.&#8221; The spokesperson declined to comment &#8220;on the details of specific refugee cases.&#8221;
Without answers on their cases, many of the refugees are forced to live among their threats. Some move from house to house to avoid attacks and many rarely leave their homes after facing violent attacks and racial discrimination.
One Afrikaner woman who also spoke on the condition of anonymity said she applied for the refugee program after her family faced racially motivated attacks, including one where her daughter was raped and the police refused to act.
&#8220;The police said she asked for it,&#8221; the woman said.
&#8220;This child was broken. My kids have got no future in this country &#8230; And now we&#8217;re sitting, we&#8217;re waiting, we&#8217;re not hearing. We&#8217;re stressed, we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. This thing has taken such a toll on us,&#8221; she added.
Several Afrikaners who spoke with us said their children wouldn&#8217;t be able to secure jobs after school because they&#8217;re white.
But one message was clear, the Afrikaners don&#8217;t want Americans to perceive them as entitled. They made clear that they want to work and lead self-sufficient lives in the safety of the United States.
&#8220;When we get there, I don&#8217;t want to be dependent on the United States government to just provide and, provide and provide,&#8221; Pierre, an Afrikaner living in Cape Town and still awaiting the fate of his case after applying over a year ago, said.
Pierre and his wife&#8217;s medical evaluations expired in April and CWS still hasn&#8217;t rescheduled their appointments, he said.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want anybody to think that we&#8217;re entitled to this, or we&#8217;re trying to demand anything. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s become really unbearable in South Africa,&#8221; he said.
CWS didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment.

Leftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court

President Trump, in a blistering Wednesday <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115617700844849134">Truth Social post</a>, laid out precisely why the United States boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg — and why South Africa will not be receiving an invitation to next year’s summit in Miami.
Trump accused the South African government of refusing to acknowledge what he called “horrific Human Rights Abuses” against Afrikaners — descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers — alleging killings, farm seizures, and state-backed discrimination. He blasted the legacy media, particularly The New York Times, accusing them of covering up what he described as a slow-motion genocide. And in classic Trump fashion, he tied the media’s silence to their failing business models: “That’s why all the liars and pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business!”
The confrontation did not begin on Wednesday. For weeks, the Trump administration had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-dept-says-g20-boycott-tied-south-africas-government-sponsored-discrimination-against-afrikaners?utm_source=chatgpt.com">signaled</a> it would boycott the South Africa–hosted G20, marking the first such U.S. absence in the summit’s history. State Department officials had already charged South Africa with inciting race-based hostility and enabling policies — including the 2024 Expropriation Act — that, they argued, unfairly target white farmers. Trump had previously confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, accusing him of ignoring violence against Afrikaners, a claim Ramaphosa publicly rejected.
When the summit opened on November 22, the U.S. stuck with its boycott but dispatched a junior diplomat, the chargé d’affaires, to accept the rotating G20 presidency for 2026. That’s when the situation escalated. South African officials <a href="https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-11-22-g20-presidency-handover-to-us-will-happen-any-time-from-monday-lamola/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">refused</a> to hand over the ceremonial gavel to a lower-ranking American, calling it a breach of diplomatic protocol — something, they noted, that had “never happened before” at any G20. Trump, in his Truth Social post, characterized this as yet another insult from a government “not worthy of Membership anywhere.”
After the summit closed, South Africa quietly <a href="applewebdata://F458F81E-5B5C-4CC2-908D-90C8A5EC1A3A/v">completed the handoff</a> anyway — but only in a closed-door meeting between mid-level diplomats in Pretoria. By then, the damage was done. Trump announced that South Africa would be barred from the 2026 G20 in Miami and that all U.S. “payments and subsidies” to Pretoria would be halted immediately.
Meanwhile, senior administration officials told Fox News Digital that the refugee cap for 2026 will reserve a majority of its 7,500 slots for Afrikaners fleeing what the U.S. now formally describes as systemic, government-driven discrimination.
In short: a historic boycott, a diplomatic standoff, and Washington making clear it will not treat South Africa as a normal partner until the situation changes.

President Trump Holds Press Conference With FBI Director Kash Patel

Trump Nukes South Africa’s G20 Invite After Diplomatic Showdown

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The Trump administration will let in just 7,500 refugees this year, marking the lowest cap on admissions in United States history, <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a Thursday federal notice.
The Trump administration said refugee status will &#8220;primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa &#8230; and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.&#8221;
The latest refugee limit accounts for the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The Biden administration set the previous year&#8217;s limit at a whopping 125,000, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/trump-refugee-admissions-white-south-africans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
When President Donald Trump reentered the White House, he paused refugee admissions, citing the &#8220;record levels of migration&#8221; flows under the Biden administration.
In February, Trump signed an executive <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a> freezing aid to South Africa after it enacted a law &#8220;to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.&#8221;
Julius Malema, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa, earlier chanted “shoot to kill” and “kill the boer” at a political rally in reference to the white Afrikaner population. At another event, he said that his political movement is “cutting the throat of whiteness.”
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South Africa&#8217;s Julius Malema, the party leader of the EFF calls for killing white people:
&#8220;Shoot to kiII. KiII the Boer, the farmer&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/vFjqJ9l8GR">pic.twitter.com/vFjqJ9l8GR</a> <a href="https://t.co/sxzS0d0Dn4">https://t.co/sxzS0d0Dn4</a>
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The U.S. welcomed the first group of Afrikaner refugees in May.
At the time, Trump accused the South African government of committing a &#8220;genocide&#8221; against its white citizens.
“It is a genocide that is taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” Trump told reporters at the White House at the time.
“It’s a terrible thing that’s taking place and farmers are being killed,” he added. “They happen to be white, but whether they are white or black makes no difference to me.”
Democrats, however, have expressed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-says-dem-senator-only-opposes-afrikaner-refugees-because-of-their-race">outrage</a> over the Trump administration&#8217;s acceptance of white South African refugees, accusing officials of prioritizing them because of the color of their skin.
The issue became a focal point of a Congressional hearing in May that featured Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“Can you have a different standard based upon the color of somebody’s skin? Would that be acceptable?” Democrat Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine asked Rubio at the time.
&#8220;I’m not the one arguing that, apparently you are because you don’t like the fact that they’re white and that’s why they’re coming,” Rubio shot back in response.
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“You’re the one that’s talking about the color of their skin, not me. These are people whose farms were burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin,” the Secretary of State went on to add.
The Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement wing, which has resettled migrants in the U.S. for decades, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-south-african-refugees-citing-racial-justice-commitment?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Episcopal+Church+Refuses+To+Resettle+White+South+African+Refugees%2C+Citing+%E2%80%98Racial+Justice%E2%80%99+Commitment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in May that it would refuse to help settle the Afrikaners for explicitly racial reasons.
The organization also pledged to cancel its existing resettlement contract with the federal government over the controversy.
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Trump Sets Refugee Limit To Lowest Level In History

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip a Group of 20 finance officials meeting in South Africa next week, sources familiar with his plans told Reuters, but will attend the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, according to a Treasury spokesperson.
Bessent&#8217;s decision to miss the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting marks the second time this year he has opted against attending a G20 meeting in South Africa, which is serving as the group&#8217;s president this year.
A Treasury official confirmed that Michael Kaplan, acting undersecretary for international affairs, will represent the department at the July 17-18 meeting near Durban, South Africa instead of Bessent. The United States is due to head the G20 group, which it helped found in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, next year.
Bessent, a key figure in President Donald Trump&#8217;s trade negotiations, will represent the United States at the U.S. national day at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, a Treasury spokesperson said. The national day will be marked on July 19.
It was not immediately clear if he would engage in bilateral meetings during the visit.
The White House said Bessent would lead the U.S. delegation, which will also include Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
News of Bessent&#8217;s trip comes a day after Trump sent a letter to Japan raising tariffs on Japanese imports to 25%, starting August 1. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would continue negotiations with the U.S. to seek a mutually beneficial deal.
Bessent skipped South Africa&#8217;s first G20 finance meeting in February to attend Trump&#8217;s first cabinet meeting in Washington. Finance ministers from China, Japan, India, and Canada also skipped the meeting in Cape Town focused on tackling global poverty, as did the European Union&#8217;s top economic official.
Bessent&#8217;s February decision came amid rising tensions between Washington and Pretoria as Trump threatened to cut off funding for South Africa, accusing President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s government of confiscating land from white South Africans and turning a blind eye to the targeted killings of white farmers. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also skipped a February G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa.
In May, Trump declined to say whether he would attend a G20 leaders summit in South Africa in November, after blasting Ramaphosa at the White House over reports of white genocide and land seizures in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.
On Monday, Trump sent Ramaphosa a letter informing him that imports from South Africa would be subject to a 30% tariff starting next month, unless the country agrees to reduce its trade barriers to U.S. goods &#8211; one of more than a dozen countries to get similar letters.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Writing by David Lawder; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Christopher Cushing)

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Scott Bessent To Skip South Africa G20 Meeting Again, Travel To Japan Instead

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There is a philosophy that has now become dominant on the Left and even parts of the center. It&#8217;s throughout the West.
The deeper roots of this philosophy bear a deadly fruit.
Let’s begin with a bizarre and hilarious spectacle. Great Britain’s King Charles III was visiting the Canadian Parliament and decided that it would be worthwhile to offer a land acknowledgment.
This is hilarious because King Charles is the King of Great Britain. The only reason the Canadian Parliament exists is because of the settlement of Canada by British citizens. That’s why he is there in the first place.
Charles doing a land acknowledgment and taking that seriously would amount to essentially disestablishing Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa and a bunch of other countries, because all of those countries were originally created as functioning polities by the British Empire.
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This bizarre idea that Charles can arrive on Canadian territory and start apologizing to the indigenous people for the presence of white people in this particular area is absurd, especially coming from King Charles, who is the greatest beneficiary on planet Earth of the imperialism of the British Empire.
There are human universals, such as migration, settlement, annexation, and conflict, and they are not unique to white people, Westerners, or Europeans; it&#8217;s just that white people, Westerners and Europeans, have been much better at it than other parts of the population on planet Earth. They&#8217;re more successful, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, but that does not mean that there is some unique sin that attends to whiteness, being Western, or being European.
Charles said, “I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.”
Of course the land is unceded, because the nature of human conflict is that when people migrate from one part of the Earth to another part of the Earth, conflict tends to arise, and then someone wins and someone loses. And it is a very good thing that the British Empire won in Canada.
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Here’s the basic idea: The world is better off because of the British Empire. The world is better off because of American power and the spread of European ideals. That is obviously true. The spread of things like property rights, due process of law, capitalism, freedom of religion, all of which are not human universals — those are the legacy of the West.
There&#8217;s always an attempt to take human universals and then project them as West-specific problems. That is not true.
The problems of murder and raping and looting and slavery are human universals.
What is unique about the West is all the other stuff. Reversing that polarity and suggesting that the West is somehow uniquely sinful because it was better at war than others, or because Westerners were better at settlement than the Algonquin who lived on the land where Canada&#8217;s parliament now sits, and that is a human tragedy, is not, in fact, a human tragedy.
Bad things happen throughout human history. The bad things are tragedies. But overall, in the broad scope of history, it is an absolutely wonderful thing that Europeans ended up on the North American continent.
Anyone who doesn&#8217;t believe so should probably leave. If you don&#8217;t believe that, you probably should go back to your dingy apartment and cede it back to the natives from whom your ancestors took it.
All of this ties into a deeper and more deadly philosophy.
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the White House and was asked about the “Kill the Boer” chant, which has become common at some rallies, targeting the Afrikaner farmers who originally settled in the area of South Africa as early as the 17th century, fought for hundreds of years, and were responsible at one point for tremendous racism against black people.
But the solution to that is not genocidal chants. Yet there’s an idea that as long as the people who are shouting the genocidal chants are not white, European and Western, it suddenly becomes okay.
Why? Because the rules don&#8217;t equally apply in this left-wing philosophy, where the sins of the West are unique and the West is unique in its evil.
What that means is that the West has to be destroyed. This has deadly consequences. And it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you call this stuff anti-white or anti-Semitic or anti-whatever. The problem with this generalized philosophy is that it is simply evil.
When you separate the world into victims and victimizers and you suggest that anyone who&#8217;s been uniquely successful is the victimizer and anyone who is not is a victim, what you get is victimizers with the moral impetus and the moral weight to kill people.
What you end up with is actual terrorism, actual violence, actual overthrow of the institutions that made the West great in the first place.

The King And Queen Visit Canada – Day 2

Why The West Must Not Apologize For Its Success

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Asked why his country would not arrest blacks who chant “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answered that his country did not need to “be instructed by anyone” to take that step, asserting that the country’s constitution protected freedom of expression.
Last week, President Donald Trump confronted Ramaphosa at the White House about the threat to whites in his country.  When Ramaphosa claimed blacks in South Africa were also killed by criminals in the country, Trump responded, “The farmers are not black. And the people that are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all those grave sites, and those are people that loved ones are going &#8230; on a Sunday morning, they told me to pay their respects to their loved ones that were killed &#8230; their heads chopped off. They died violently.”
In late March, Julius Malema, the founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a communist political party, led a rally at which the crowd chanted “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” Malema has also led chants to “cut the throat of whiteness.”
“In 2023, a little under 300 white-owned farms were attacked across South Africa, with 49 people killed in those attacks, according to <a href="https://www.artikels.afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Farm-attacks-and-murders-in-South-Africa-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">figures from AfriForum,</a>” NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africa-racist-white-farmers-trump-musk-genocide-ramaphosa-rcna190749" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
In 2010, a South African court <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14878102" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the song “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer,” which Malema was using, did constitute hate speech. But in 2022, Judge Edwin Molahlehi <a href="https://groundup.org.za/article/judge-rules-kill-boer---kill-farmer-not-hate-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed</a> the ruling, saying, “It does not constitute hate speech and deserves to be protected under the rubric of freedom of speech &#8211; it articulates the failure of the current government to address issues of economic empowerment and land division.”
On Saturday, Malema defiantly <a href="https://www.channelstv.com/2025/05/25/south-africas-malema-vows-to-keep-chanting-controversial-song/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing is to defend the legacy of our struggle. Therefore I will never stop singing” the song. &#8220;That will be a betrayal to the struggle of our people.&#8221;
“When it comes to the issues of arresting anyone &#8230; it’s a sovereign issue,” Ramaphosa stated. “It’s not a matter where we need to be instructed by anyone that ‘Go and arrest this one.’ We are a very proud, sovereign country that has its own laws, that has its own processes, and we take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that that slogan, ‘Kill the Boer. Kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan. And it’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed. That is what our court decided. So they will probably want to arrest people willy-nilly, [but] we follow the dictates of our constitution because we are a constitutional state and we are a country where freedom of expression is in the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.&#8221;
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[WATCH] President Cyril Ramaphosa says SA can’t be instructed to arrest anyone for the &quot;Kill The Boer&quot; chant. <a href="https://t.co/FtgvtjAXHv">pic.twitter.com/FtgvtjAXHv</a>
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In January, Ramaphosa <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o">signed</a> the <a href="https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/expropriation-act-13-2024-english-sepedi-24-jan-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-hveid="CAIQAg">Expropriation Act 13 of 2024</a>, permitting the government to seize land for public purposes or in the public interest.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confronts-south-african-president-in-oval-office-over-white-farmer-genocide">Trump Confronts South African President In Oval Office Over White Farmer Genocide</a>

South African President: Don’t ‘Instruct’ Us To Arrest Those Chanting Death Threats To Whites

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Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it&#8217;s fair to call Cyril Ramaphosa one of the few surviving &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped write the country&#8217;s new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphosa gradually accumulated more wealth and power, until he finally became the country&#8217;s president in 2018. He&#8217;s currently worth something like half a billion dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africa&#8217;s residents now live in extreme poverty.
What this means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa&#8217;s post-colonial experiment. When he drafted that new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that, by 2025, the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world, at 40%. He certainly didn&#8217;t tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white farmers, or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all of that has happened. And yet, for all this time, no one &#8212; and certainly no world leader &#8212; has held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it&#8217;s been something of a tradition in Washington to pretend South Africa is somehow a &#8220;great ally&#8221; to the United States, and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty, as Joe Biden did a few years ago.
That tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office, when Donald Trump did something no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa, to his face in the most public forum imaginable, that he&#8217;s a fraud who&#8217;s overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician, from both parties, has been desperate to uphold for several decades.
In order to understand the importance of *what* Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United States for money, because he&#8217;s run his country into the ground and they can&#8217;t even feed themselves anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about &#8220;what it would take&#8221; for Trump to stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar to his face, and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. Here&#8217;s how it went:
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So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa essentially validates what the reporter is saying. He says Donald Trump needs to &#8220;listen&#8221; to the people of South Africa, in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people. It&#8217;s probably the most obnoxious answer that he could&#8217;ve come up with, especially after dozens of white South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.
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But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him &#8212; a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen &#8212; what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his father&#8217;s friends, who own farms, have been murdered, and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch:
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Retief Goosen: &quot;My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed&#8230; it&#39;s a constant battle with — they&#39;re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/93b4YZhpLQ">pic.twitter.com/93b4YZhpLQ</a>
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Again, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office, as part of South Africa&#8217;s delegation, hoping he&#8217;d neutralize the supposedly &#8220;fake narrative&#8221; about white genocide. This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded, obnoxiously, that Trump &#8220;listen to.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t exactly go as planned &#8212; which probably tells you something about the level of &#8220;planning&#8221; that South Africa&#8217;s government is capable of.
And things only got worse from there, as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers. In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa&#8217;s bluff. He &#8220;listened&#8221; to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans &#8212; and he made Ramaphosa, and the rest of the world, listen to it as well. And as you watch this, notice the expression on Ramaphosa&#8217;s face, as he genuinely cannot believe what is happening. Watch:
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If you&#8217;ve listened to this show, or been active on social media over the past year or so, then you&#8217;ve seen or heard most of these clips before. And you&#8217;ve heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited. That&#8217;s because in South Africa, black politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured in their homes for decades, in attacks that are clearly racially motivated. And instead of stopping the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white people without compensating them. All of this has been known for a while now.
But in their coverage of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let&#8217;s take a brief look at that coverage. Here&#8217;s ABC, for example. Watch as they deliberately give the impression that they had never seen anything like this footage before:
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&#8220;We do not know the source of the videos.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty extraordinary. There are only two explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she&#8217;s monumentally lazy, and she&#8217;s confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage that&#8217;s been available on the Internet for years. Or, she&#8217;s deliberately lying to ABC&#8217;s viewers, and trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. If anyone at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa, they&#8217;d tell their audience that, yes, the footage is real, and that the genocide of white people is something they&#8217;re openly encouraging over there.
For his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office, Cyril Ramaphosa offered this response. As you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar sleight of hand he uses. Watch:
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First of all, he&#8217;s right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South Africa. That&#8217;s true. But it&#8217;s also not very reassuring, for two reasons. First of all, these minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people, chanting about murdering white farmers. So we&#8217;re not talking about one fringe politician here. This is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out, the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose their homes and their farms, without any form of compensation whatsoever. That&#8217;s a pretty good indication that, indeed, the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide.
Ramaphosa had no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that, in South Africa, the majority of people who die are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you&#8217;re a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of &#8220;per capita,&#8221; which of course describes most South African leaders. So maybe the talking point works there. But it doesn&#8217;t work when you&#8217;re dealing with intelligent people, because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the population of South Africa is black. So obviously, most of the people who are killed in South Africa are going to be black. No one is disputing that.
The relevant question is whether white people (particularly white farmers) are being targeted because of their skin color, and whether they&#8217;re dying at a rate that&#8217;s higher than black people, given that they only make up something like six percent of the population. And of course, no one in South Africa&#8217;s government wants to address those questions, because they know the truth: white farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you&#8217;ll see in literal warzones, or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is something like 150 per 100,000 people. That&#8217;s why white people in South Africa are currently leaving everything behind &#8212; their farms, their homes, everything &#8212; in order to fly to the United States and stay in Holiday Inns off the interstate in Idaho. They&#8217;re not doing it for fun. They&#8217;re doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa.
But even after Trump explained all of this in the Oval Office &#8212; even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the press, and for the president of South Africa &#8212; the corporate press is continuing to lie, universally, about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa. They&#8217;re simply denying that white people are being targeted. We&#8217;ll put a selection of the headlines on the screen now:
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I won&#8217;t read all of these, but every single one of them accuses Trump of &#8220;falsely&#8221; spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say Trump &#8220;abused&#8221; the South African president with lies, even though he literally played ten minutes of video for him, and listened to first-hand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same thing. This is one compilation that Chaia Raichick assembled. Watch:
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This was shameless and coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people&#8217;s standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth, seemingly by accident. Here was a <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grg3ImuXUAAVYNH?format=jpg&amp;name=small" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> that the AP posted, buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly safe for white people.
Here&#8217;s the caption: &#8220;A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside [in South Africa.]&#8221;
That&#8217;s the reality of what&#8217;s happening. And occasionally it gets out. But you won&#8217;t find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here&#8217;s how they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/ernie-els-retief-goosen-south-africa-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> what the white golfers said in the Oval Office: &#8220;Two of South Africa’s most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country on Wednesday, after President Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners. .. Mr. Goosen &#8230; shared that his relatives on farms lived behind electric fences in fear of crime, like many other South Africans. &#8216;But the guys live a great life, despite what’s going on,&#8217; he said.&#8221;
Yes, that&#8217;s what the New York Times took from the golfer&#8217;s statement. They left out the fact that the farmer&#8217;s friends are dead, that the farms are being torched, and that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home. And the reason they left those details out is that, ordinarily, most criminals don&#8217;t set fire to farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they&#8217;re motivated by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa.
Over at CNN, meanwhile, they tried to convince their 15 viewers that the song about killing white farmers, which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn&#8217;t meant to be taken literally. Watch:
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They&#8217;re simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it&#8217;s bad to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can&#8217;t acknowledge that post-colonial South Africa is a failure, for the same reason they can&#8217;t acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, thriving state &#8212; the &#8220;breadbasket of Africa,&#8221; they called it &#8212; while Zimbabwe (the new name for Rhodesia) is a hellhole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. One after another, these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn&#8217;t so bad after all. In fact, it was a lot better than the alternative.
It&#8217;s obvious why they can&#8217;t admit any of this. Every single Left-wing agenda item &#8212; from the modern civil rights movement to DEI &#8212; is predicated on the idea that past &#8220;oppression,&#8221; as they define it, justifies hand-outs and preferential treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that, any effort to supposedly balance things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past, only means the murder rate would be ten times higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation, everyone would be poor, and elderly women would regularly be tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. That&#8217;s the reality. It&#8217;s gone unsaid for generations, and people in South Africa &#8212; of all races &#8212; have suffered because of it. So have people in this country.
It is a lie that, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And in doing so, Trump didn&#8217;t just demolish one of the central mythologies of the Left &#8212; one that, until now, has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that, in this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication, with foreign leaders or anyone else. Instead, we&#8217;ll be direct. We won&#8217;t cower from the truth, or sugarcoat it with euphemism.
Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we&#8217;re going to reverse the damage that South Africa&#8217;s leaders have done &#8212; and more importantly, if we&#8217;re going to prevent that ideology from spreading here. That&#8217;s been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think we&#8217;re going to succeed in that effort.

Donald Trump/Cyril Ramaphosa

Trump Just Forced The South African President To Acknowledge The White Genocide

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Matt Walsh

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President Donald Trump defended Afrikaner farmers during an Oval Office meeting today with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, playing a video of alleged incitements to violence after Ramaphosa rejected claims of a white genocide.
The video included a clip of Julius Malema, a member of South Africa’s National Assembly, singing “Kill the Boer” at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.
While the video played, Ramaphosa looked away from the screen, visibly uncomfortable, while Trump looked straight on.
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President Trump directly accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of an Afrikaner genocide.
When Ramaphosa denied the claim, Trump played a video showing anti-Afrikaner speeches and footage of white farmers&#39; burial sites. <a href="https://t.co/IgDXz1vJKQ">pic.twitter.com/IgDXz1vJKQ</a>
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The video also included footage of what Trump claimed was the gravesite of 1,000 Afrikaner farmers.
Ramaphosa said he had never seen the site but “would like to know where that is.”
Trump also held up articles that he said showed proof of the genocide against Afrikaners.
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“I don’t know how it can get any worse,” Trump said.
Ramaphosa responded to Trump, raising concerns about the “Kill the Boer” chant, claiming that it was said by a minority party and was not representative of the government.
“When they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them,” Trump said. 
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President Trump arguing with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa about the genocide of White farmers.
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Ramaphosa responded, claiming that black people are also killed by criminals in the country.
“The farmers are not black,” Trump said. “The people that are being killed in large numbers, and you saw those grave sites and those are people that loved ones are going on a Sunday morning they told me to pay their respects to their loved ones that were killed. Their heads chopped off. They died violently.”
Ramaphosa, being diplomatic, asked to discuss the “criminality” issues in South Africa outside of the media and encouraged American partnership in addressing them.
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The meeting comes amid controversy over the Trump administration welcoming Afrikaner refugees to the United States, alleging they are the victims of a race-based genocide. 
Tensions between the two countries have increased following the passage of South Africa’s Expropriation Act, which allows the South African government to confiscate land without compensation.
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Trump issued an executive order in February saying the act ignored citizens’ rights and enabled the government to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.” The directive cut aid or assistance to South Africa and declared that the United States would promote resettling Afrikaner refugees.
Ramaphosa denied that Afrikaner land is being taken away during the meeting. He pointed to his South African Agriculture Minister, John Steenhuisen, who is white, and claimed that the majority of white farmers want to stay. 
Steenhuisen said he joined Ramaphosa’s coalition government as an opposition party to keep the anti-white politicians out of power in South Africa.
“Why wouldn’t you arrest that man?” Trump asked, pointing out that Malema was inciting violence by calling for white people to be killed.
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The Trump administration accepted 59 farmers who arrived in the United States on a chartered flight earlier this month through an expedited program. Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-says-dem-senator-only-opposes-afrikaner-refugees-because-of-their-race">have denied</a> that Afrikaners are being persecuted for their race and have criticized the Trump administration for resettling the refugees in the United States.
Trump pushed back on those criticisms last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-critics-of-south-african-refugee-policy-its-a-terrible-thing-thats-taking-place?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Rips+Critics+Of+South+African+Refugee+Policy%3A+%E2%80%98It%E2%80%99s+A+Terrible+Thing+That%E2%80%99s+Taking+Place%E2%80%99">saying</a> the refugees “happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio doubled down on the Trump administration’s belief that Afrikaners are being persecuted during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
“These are people whose farms were burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin,” Rubio said in a heated exchange with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
Rubio added that the farmers qualify for refugee status because they “live in a country where farms are taken and land is taken on a racial basis.”

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