Newly arrived Afrikaners' listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (centre) and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar (right) deliver welcome statements in a hangar at Washington's Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. Many Afrikaners seem to struggle with one thing: being part of a South Africa that belongs to all of us, says the writer.
Eddy Maloka
I was not surprised to learn that the US asylum programme aimed at rescuing Afrikaner “refugees” from “white genocide” in South Africa by bringing them across the Atlantic Ocean has encountered a setback.
As the Afrikaners were heading to the US in one direction, the Latinos were moving in the opposite direction, being pushed out of that country thanks to MAGA’s mass deportation programme. How were these Afrikaners going to be welcomed into an American nationhood when African-Americans still feel excluded from it? How were these Afrikaners going to be embraced by a nation that is still struggling with accepting its Native American citizens fully?
This asylum programme may seem irrational at first glance, but there is a reason behind it. Its logic can be traced to the controversial “Great Replacement Theory” associated with the French writer Renaud Camus, which claims that a deliberate plan is being orchestrated by “liberal” elites to replace white people in Western countries with non-white immigrants through unlimited mass migration to engineer the extinction of the white race.
