{"id":2434815,"date":"2025-05-14T19:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-african-president-calls-afrikaner-refugees-cowards\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:20:53","slug":"south-african-president-calls-afrikaner-refugees-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-african-president-calls-afrikaner-refugees-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"South African president calls Afrikaner refugees &#8216;cowards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-african-president-calls-afrikaner-refugees-cowards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2434815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently remarked that the emigration of afrikaners from south Africa is an act of &#8220;cowardice.&#8221; His comments came after the arrival of approximately 59 Afrikaner refugees in the United States, coinciding with assertions from the White House regarding violent acts against South Africa&#8217;s white population, which they categorized as a &#8220;genocide.&#8221; Ramaphosa emphasized the importance of staying and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-abbott-says-nyc-mayor-has-sued-the-wrong-party-over-border-busing-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Abbott: NYC mayor targets the wrong party in border busing lawsuit\">addressing national issues<\/a> rather than fleeing, stating that those who leave are not facing their challenges. He argued that South Africans should demonstrate resilience, asserting that previous beneficiaries of apartheid inequalities should work towards dismantling those injustices rather than abandoning the country.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative surrounding the safety of white Afrikaners in South Africa is contentious, especially concerning violent attacks against white farmers, which some activists claim are racially motivated.The South African government counters that these incidents are part of a broader crime wave and denies any systemic bias against Afrikaners. The U.S.government has taken a strong stance on this issue,with former President Trump condemning the violence against white farmers and withholding diplomatic participation in an upcoming G20 summit in south Africa.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">South African president calls refugees &lsquo;cowards&rsquo; after arrival in US<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1973107\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">South African <\/a>President Cyril Ramaphosa characterized the flight of Afrikaners from his country as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce82e67p8p2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">act of cowardice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3407939\/first-group-south-africans-leaves-for-us-trump-offered-refugee-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">59 Afrikaner refugees<\/a> arrived in the United States on Monday as the White House decried the &ldquo;genocide&rdquo; happening against the white population of South Africa. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3411027\/club-for-growth-trump-tax-cuts-scott-perry-mike-lawler\/\">Club for Growth pushes Congress to oppose &#8216;largest tax hike&#8217; in history and back Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3410828\/debbie-dingell-congressman-asleep-trump-rapid-agenda-exhausts-washington\/\">Dingell defends dozing off as Trump&rsquo;s rapid agenda exhausts Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3410519\/trump-boeing-qatar-deal-middle-east-controversy\/\">Trump celebrates Boeing-Qatar deal amid Air Force One gift controversy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Instead of helping the efforts to dismantle the nation&rsquo;s apartheid-era inequalities that benefited white citizens until 1994, Ramaphosa said their decision to leave was a&nbsp;&ldquo;sad moment for them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jerome Delay, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;As South Africans, we are resilient. We don&rsquo;t run away from our problems,&rdquo; Ramaphosa said. &ldquo;We must stay here and solve our problems. When you run away, you are a coward, and that&rsquo;s a real cowardly act.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can bet you that they will be back soon because there is no country like South Africa,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Afrikaners formed a rigid ethnic identity after settling in South Africa in the mid-1600s. They dominated the political and business elite of South Africa until the end of apartheid in 1994. Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-uses-6th-grad-econ-test-to-show-harris-why-her-inflation-plan-wont-work\/\" title=\"Mark Levin Uses 6th Grad Econ Test to Show Harris Why Her Inflation Plan Won&#039;t Work\">government doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t keep statistics regarding the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-officials-celebrate-white-south-africans-arrival-in-dc\/\" title=\"Trump officials celebrate ... ...ns\u2019 arrival in DC\">white farmers killed<\/a>, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genocidewatch.com\/single-post\/2017\/03\/25\/-bury-them-alive-white-south-africans-fear-for-their-future-as-horrific-farm-attacks-esc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accompanied<\/a>&nbsp;by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,&rdquo; Trump said Monday. &ldquo;But whether they&rsquo;re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don&rsquo;t even talk about it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight &mdash;&nbsp;I don&rsquo;t care about anything,&rdquo; Trump continued. &ldquo;I just know that what&rsquo;s happening is terrible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3410867\/arlington-county-ice-board-working-to-prevent-police-from-cooperating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>ARLINGTON COUNTY BOARD IS ACTIVELY WORKING TO PREVENT POLICE FROM COOPERATING WITH ICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-against-biden-doj-in-high-stakes-jan-6-case-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Supreme Court rules against Biden DOJ in high-stakes Jan. 6 case - Washington Examiner\">government&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year.<\/p>\n<p>South African Ambassador to the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3349151\/south-africa-ambassador-no-longer-welcome-in-us-after-bashing-trump-for-white-victimhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ebrahim Rasool<\/a> was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3349151\/south-africa-ambassador-no-longer-welcome-in-us-after-bashing-trump-for-white-victimhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, who called him a &ldquo;race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Brady Knox contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1973107\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1973107\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African President Ramaphosa labels Afrikaner refugees &#8216;cowards&#8217; after their arrival in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2434816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25058696324807.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[55265,5523,45252],"class_list":["post-2434815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-afrikaner","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25058696324807.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434819,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434815\/revisions\/2434819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}