Aansoeke oop vir vlugtelinge na Amerika vanuit SA
The Trump Administration’s policy to focus on white-Afrikaners by offering them refugee status in the United States, now supported by a bill just introduced into Congress, falls into the same trap as the ANC does—understanding South Africa as a conflict between black and white.
By making this about race the Trump administration plays into the hands of the ANC, who are most comfortable in fighting on that terrain but who would have been totally wrong-footed had the Trump administration made the issue about common values.
We need to move beyond the politics of race and toward the politics of shared values. Black and white South Africans share common ground on the basic values of faith in God, family, hard work, decency, respect, rule of law. South Africa is essentially a moderate, center-right, conservative society where the bulk of people share many of the values that are common to Trump’s own supporters in America.