White South Africans support Trump and claim to be victims of racism

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Pretoria, South Africa-on Saturday some white South Africans showed their support for President Donald Trump and gathered at the US message in Pretoria to claim that they were victims of racism by their own government.

protests in Pretoria

hundreds of demonstrators highly held posters with the inscription "Thank God for President Trump" and other messages, which in their view criticize the racist laws of the South African government. Many protesters come from the African community, to which Trump focused in a recently enacted decree, which reduced auxiliary payments to the South African government led by blacks.

criticism of land legislation

In this decree, Trump explained that the Africans, descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers, are affected by a new law that allows the government to exprude private country. However, the South African government has denied that its new law is connected to breed. She claims that Trump's statements about the country and the law are full of misinformation and distortions.

The answer of the South African President

Trump claimed that the country was expropriated by Africans, while no country was actually withdrawn under the law. Trump also announced a plan to offer the Africans in the United States the status as refugees. However, these represent only part of the white minority in South Africa.

In a speech in front of the parliament, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said this week that the forced removal of people from their country in South Africa is never allowed again. This happened in the past, as millions of blacks in the context of the Apartheid-Systems of the white minority Colonialism were expropriated.

inequality and land reform

"People in this country know the pain of forced displacements," said Ramaphosa. He explained that the state law does not allow arbitrary expropriations and only aimed at land that can be redistributed to the public well -being.

The criticism and punishment of South Africa by the Trump administration has illustrated a long-lasting dilemma in the country, which deals with the reparation of the injustices from centuries of the oppression of the black majority.

The struggle for equality

According to the government, the state law is said to react fairly to inequality, since the majority of the arable land in South Africa is obsessed by whites, which, however, only make up 7 % of the population. White demonstrators held banners on Saturday, which refers to the expropriation law, but also to other positive measures that the government has introduced to promote blacks since the end of apartheid in 1994. These laws, known as Black Economic Empowerment, are a source of frustration for some white.

influential voices

The influential Trump-advisor Elon Musk -also grew up in South Africa- The government criticizes and accused it of an anti-white attitude for years, although some question its motivations. He recently failed to receive a license for his Starlink satellite internet service in South Africa, since this did not meet the criteria of the positive measures in the country

breed diversity and political landscape

Although breed shaped South Africa for a long time, the country has largely made progress in the years after apartheid to one of its ethnically diverse population. The current government consists of a coalition of 10 of black and white guided political parties that work together.