You’ll have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents final month from South Africa – and that extra got here this previous weekend. They’re all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given a few of these white Afrikaners refugee standing as a result of he claims a “white genocide” is occurring in opposition to them in South Africa. This declare is unfaithful. So the place is it coming from?
And why would possibly this declare be politically expedient for the Trump administration? And what parallels can we see between a few of the white Afrikaners and the American proper? Brittany sits down with South African journalist Kate Bartlett and Sean Jacobs, professor of worldwide affairs on the New College to get into it.
