Leaders from the Afrikaner town of Orania flew to Washington and met with Trump-adjacent Republicans to pitch autonomy and ask for investment cash instead of refugee deals. Joost Strydom and his crew talked up their volkstaat dream while trying to score funding for housing and infrastructure since the settlement keeps growing by around 15 percent every year.
Trump has been beating the drum about white farmers getting attacked and losing land, which gave the Orania people validation as a distinct group separate from the rest of South Africa. The delegation made it clear they want help building up their community rather than bailing out as refugees, like some Americans keep suggesting.
Critics back home see the whole thing as divisive nonsense that undermines national unity, and the EFF jumped in, calling it an attack on the rainbow nation concept.
Trump has been beating the drum about white farmers getting attacked and losing land, which gave the Orania people validation as a distinct group separate from the rest of South Africa. The delegation made it clear they want help building up their community rather than bailing out as refugees, like some Americans keep suggesting.
Critics back home see the whole thing as divisive nonsense that undermines national unity, and the EFF jumped in, calling it an attack on the rainbow nation concept.
