He founded the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB-Afrikaner Resistance Movement) alongside six others in 1972 as a shadowy group seeking to protect the rights of the Boers' descendants.

Which brings us to the appointment of Ebrahim Rasool as Pretoria’s ambassador to Washington. This was a major misstep, an unforced error resulting from ANC hubris and the rabidly pro-Islamist ethos ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting all funding to South Africa and announced a plan to resettle all ‘Afrikaner refugees’ to America. South Africa spent the weekend ...

By John Eligon and Lynsey Chutel Reporting from Johannesburg and London For decades, some members of the white Afrikaner minority have been trying to convince anyone and everyone who would listen ...

According to Strydom, Orania’s vision for self-governance is not a new concept, as the Afrikaner territory was acknowledged in Parliament in the 1990s. “Our plea can be summarised in three ...

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LEADERS of the Afrikaner community, including farmers, have told American President Donald Trump hulle gaan nerens nie after his offer of refugee status. Last week, Trump shocked South Africans when ...

Thanks, but no thanks, Oom Donald. Afrikaner groups in South Africa have declined US President Donald Trump’s offer to grant them refugee status and resettlement in the United States. The plan was ...

Trump added that the United States would “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” ‘The Secretary of State and the Secretary ...

In a tweet, X user @romyblomkamp – an Afrikaner businesswoman – reacted to Donald Trump’s invitation. She posted: “I’m going to surrender. All my family emigrated years ago to USA.

These Afrikaner organizations, including Solidarity and AfriForum, held a media briefing on Saturday in Pretoria to respond to Trump’s executive order issued on Friday, which accused South Africa of ...

South Africans shared hilarious reactions following the United States of America's offer to recognise Afrikaner farmers as refugees Online users flooded social media cracking jokes about the executive ...