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  "path": "/post/212249/trump-white-south-african-refugees-gift-bag-racists-afrikaners",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T21:25:31.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "white south africans",
    "South Africa",
    "refugees",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Racism",
    "Afrikaners",
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  "textContent": "The Trump administration wants to give white South African “refugees” an arrival gift bag with an American flag, an Android tablet, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and hagiographic literature from PragerU minimizing the history of slavery and apartheid in the country and falsely accusing the South African government of “favoring the Black population.”\n\nThis is the latest effort to woo the Afrikaner population, descended from 17th-century Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers in South Africa, since the Trump administration began allowing thousands of white South Africans into the country based on debunked claims that they’re victims of “white genocide” pushed by Elon Musk, while maintaining Trump’s ban on people who legitimately need asylum.\n\n“Farmers are being killed,” Trump said last May, calling Afrikaners a “long-persecuted minority group.”\n\nThe gift bags have yet to be finalized, according to _The New York Times_.\n\nOne of the books from PragerU, titled _Lwazi’s Hard Lesson_ , details a Black South African rugby player who protects his white teammate from an angry Black mob, and describes South African freedom fighter and first post-apartheid President Nelson Mandela as a “South African lawyer and activist who sought to end apartheid with acts of sabotage.”\n\n“Unlike South Africa’s Black population, the white population is declining in number,” the literature included in the package reads. “As an easy scapegoat for a failing government, more and more white South Africans are choosing to leave the country each year.”\n\nBrown University historian Nancy Jacobs described that account to the _Times_ as “selective in the extreme, and even inaccurate.”\n\nAs of 2025, white South Africans own nearly 75 percent of all farmland in the country despite making up just 7 percent of the population.",
  "title": "Trump Is Giving White South African Refugees a Gift Bag for Racists"
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