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BBC NEWS, Johannesburg
Ulrich Janz van Wurren made him share and demonstrate some of the best features of South Africa with his legion of social media followers.
The 38-year-old White South African African often shoots scenes that shoot scenes such as the cold morning of Johannesburg, purple Jacaranda trees, poorly related to the popular beach shores of Pretoria or Cape Town.
“I am engaged in promoting South Africa – this is what I admire – I do not intend to accept the proposal (US Donald Trump) because South Africa is my home,” the BBC said, a few days after a small group of her own compatriots left South Africa for her new life.
The US president and his South African ally Elon Musk says that white Africans are being persecuted in their home country and that they are subjected to “genocide”.
This is the statement that spreads over the years, though was widely discredited.
Although some white farmers were attacked and killed, South Africa has one of the highest levels of murder in the world, so it is a problem that affects all its citizens, regardless of their race.
“For me, South Africa at home. It is a place where my roots and heritage, where I can contribute to the history of our nation and make a significant impact,” said Mr. Junz van Wuren, who has more than a million followers on social media.
“I put deeply in the success of South Africa, and I am proud to participate in his journey.”
And although he wished those who accepted Trump’s proposal all the best in the US and urged them to “look back”, he insisted that none of them were refugees, but rather “adaptations”.
“They used more than the share of resources and privileges of South Africa, and no one escapes racial harassment,” he said.
Thirty years after the end of the racist apartheid system, the average standard of living among the White Community of South Africa remains much higher than the black majority.
Mr. Jans Van Vuren said the debate on African -Africa’s status in South Africa only served to make it “more decisive than when -to activate and contribute to South Africa in all ways.”
Four centuries after the first group of Dutch settlers arrived in modern South Africa, most Africans consider themselves fully African – as it is seen in the name – and no longer identified with their European roots.
But many are dissatisfied with both the high crime and government policy aimed at reducing economic inequality in the country – especially A The law passed earlier this year This allowed the government to seize the land without compensation, “if it is fair and fair and in public interests.” White South Africans make up 7% of the country’s population, but have half their agricultural land.
Some Africans are farmers and see the law aimed at them.
Trump said the legislation pushed him to propose to help relocate “African refugees who avoid discrimination based on governments based on dew.”
The status of white South African farmers has long been a cohesive shout on the right and extremely right -wing American policy.
But despite numerous claims in the past systematic orientation to the white African minority in the country, the figures of local crimes statistics draw another picture.
South Africa does not release the figures based on race, but the last figures showed that 6 953 people were killed in the country between October to December 2024. Of these, 12 were killed in attacks on the farm. For 12 years, one was a farmer, and five were residents of farms, and four staff who were probably black.
On Monday, The first group of 59 Africans provided refugee status, arrived at Dalesi Airport near Washington After choosing, leave your native country.
The arrival of the group caused frustration and indignation in South Africa when the civil society of the country and the leadership sought to dispel the allegations that the white minority was being persecuted.
“They leave because they do not want to accept the changes that take place in our country and our constitution,” said South Africa President Kirill Ramaphos.
He later indicated their step “cowardly act” When he appealed to the farmers at the convention held in the province of the Free State.
Many of the South African residents of the South African South African were repeated, including Mr. Jans Van Wuren, who is proud of his origin.
While he was not raised in a family of agriculture, he has relatives and friends in agriculture who were victims of crimes.
He said that when it was undoubted that some farmers were faced with “true threats and difficulties”, it was important to be careful “when discussing claims to persecution or discrimination, reflecting a whole group as victims of targeted violence or systemic oppression.”
While many white South African South African South Africans repeat the moods of Gianz van Wuren, there are those who perceive themselves as persecuting the minority.
Among them, Ilzek Styenko, who, together with his family applied for the program but did not receive feedback. She did not want us to use her real name.
Ms. Stinkamp, 47 years old, and her husband, both Africans, were commercial farmers, but stated that they had recently lost their land after the people who “captured the whole farm”, as they were going to sell it to “reduce” it.
She said she bought the land two decades ago after the apartheid.
The invading people destroyed the critical infrastructure, not allowing to sell, she said.
Despite the efforts to be removed through the courts, Ms. Stinkamp said they had to give up the land because it was authorized by the bank.
Ms. Stinkamp stated that when she and her family were familiar with the high level of crime South Africa and often tried “not allow us to get to us”, this last attack “was a straw that broke the camel’s back”.
Despite the fact that her family sought to accept Trump’s proposal when she was first announced, her mother-three told the BBC that the decision to leave “was very difficult because you … leave the whole lifestyle.”
Asked if it was unfair that African refugees were granted at the time when the US hacked refugees and asylum seekers everywhere in the world, Ms. Styenko said that “did not agree.”
She pointed to the attacks on the farmers, saying that “the hatred that seems to go with these attacks.”
“Any farmer who survived this (view) attack and now wants to escape, I think he should be considered as a refugee, because they are escaping from a government who does not even admit that it is happening,” she said.
Sam Bus, 60 years old, is another white South African, which applied for a refugee program.
She is the founder of Amerikaners, a platform aimed at providing information to the White South African interested in the US relocation proposal.
While Mrs. Bus, who has an English, not Africa, origin, and her three sons have applied, have not yet been interviewed.
While it was originally thought that the executive order, vague in its original wording, is applied only to white Africans, Mrs. Bus said that “clearly aimed at the white South Africans.”
On Monday, the US Embassy in South Africa published a statement specifying the criteria for those
Responding to criticism that they were not real fugitives, Mrs. Bus said, “If someone deprives your hope for the future, though you are not in the military zone … Someone breaks your dreams and hope for the future, it is very dramatically. It is a mental longing and emotional violence.”
But D -Pye Krukamp, Associate Professor in South Africa’s South -Western University, disagreed, repeating the opinion that those who accept the proposal were not refugees because “South Africa is not persecuted by people.”
Rather, he suggested that these could be those who have fallen the crime and “can define their existence as uncertain.”
The D -Rrukmpo, who is an African, said that although he does not expect a significant number of white South Africans, there will always be “conjunct” people who use the situation.
“This is a small group of people who go-the-driven majority of Africans are nowhere and they expressed themselves. Even right African … (eg) Africa and solidarity of solidarity They said they were not going anywhere. So even in African circles, it’s a small group of people, ”he said.
Despite their criticism of the government and its policies based on the race, outstanding groups by Afrikaner Afriforum and the Solidarity Movement once again confirmed their intention to remain in South Africa.
Afriforum said while the government is guilty of leaving the refugee status, they will remain and continue their “efforts to help create the future for African -to -African African.”
This is the opinion with which Mr. Jans Van Wuren agreed.
“Although some may choose to leave as refugees, most of us stay here, working to create a better future for everyone in South Africa.”