Darrel Brown's father was attacked by robbers 10 years ago. Since then, three of his friends — fellow South African farmers — were murdered on their farms nearby.
But Brown has no intention of leaving his home country, even as the Trump administration welcomes White South Africans to the United States as refugees.
"I'm an African, and I've been burned by the African sun, and I'm not going anywhere," he said.
In February 2025, President Trump signed an executive order cutting off all aid to South Africa and announcing the "resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government sponsored race-based discrimination."
Mr. Trump has claimed that White South Africans – including Afrikaners, the 2.7 million descendants of Dutch settlers who arrived on the continent 400 years ago – are victims of a genocide and their land is being confiscated. But in South Africa, those claims are disputed.
Max du Preez, an Afrikaans journalist and former newspaper editor, called his country's government "corrupt" but said he's never been discriminated against as a White South African. There are no large-scale killings of farmers and the government is not seizing their land, he said, as Mr. Trump has suggested.
"It is not happening," he said. "Donald Trump was fed this information, this link: farm murders, genocide. There is no such a thing. But it plays in Washington."
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