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  "path": "/thought-leader/opinion/2026-05-29-why-the-media-should-stop-calling-white-south-africans-refugees/",
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  "textContent": "Mzansi is many things: unequal, violent, frustrated, politically volatile and economically strained. But it is not a war zone. Dissatisfaction with governance, fears about crime, frustration with taxation or discomfort with transformation policies do not automatically amount to persecution",
  "title": "Why the media should stop calling white South Africans ‘refugees’"
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