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Pretoria, South Africa – 15 February 2025
1. Pan of group of white South Africans gathered outside U.S. Embassy
2. Various of white South Africans carrying placards in support of U.S. President Donald Trump
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pieter Uys, resident:
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“We’re advocating for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to have a look into the country and to the political stance of what’s happening here. With regards to the government corruption that’s happening, I think most of the country, I love my country and I love the diversity that we have. You can see I’ve got South African socks on. I support my country and my country supports me.”
4. Placard reading (English) "President Trump and Elon Musk, please help the farmers chase away the ANC. Take over South Africa, please help us!"
5. Group of white South Africans carrying placards with the US flag
6. Group of white South Africans carrying placards showing love for Trump
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Heinrich Steinhausen, resident:
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“Unfortunately, the truth of the 30 years is that we have a divided country that focuses on a point where government is placing policy and positioning South Africa as a divided nation, and in that in itself it corrupts in different levels. It breaks the concept of peace and reconciliation.”
8. Close of banner
9. Wide of South African police with shields outside the US embassy
STORYLINE:
Some white South Africans showed support for President Donald Trump on Saturday and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.
Hundreds of protesters held placards that read “Thank God for President Trump” and displayed other messages criticizing what they see as racist laws instituted by the South African government that discriminate against the white minority.
Many were from the Afrikaner community that Trump focused on in an executive order a week ago that cut aid and assistance to the Black-led South African government.
In the order, Trump said South Africa’s Afrikaners, who are descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers, were being targeted by a new law that allows the government to expropriate private land.
The South African government has denied its new law is tied to race and says Trump’s claims over the country and the law have been full of misinformation and distortions.
Trump said land was being expropriated from Afrikaners — which the order referred to as "racially disfavored landowners" — when no land has been taken under the law.
Trump also announced a plan to offer Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S.
They are only one part of South Africa’s white minority.
The Trump administration’s criticism and punishment of South Africa has elevated a long-standing dilemma in the country over moves to address the wrongs of centuries of white minority rule that oppressed the Black majority.
According to the government, the land law aims to fairly address the inequality that the majority of farmland in South Africa is owned by whites, even though they make up just 7% of the country’s population.
White protesters on Saturday held banners referencing the expropriation law but also other affirmative action policies put in place by the government since the end of apartheid in 1994 to advance opportunities for Blacks.
Those laws, known as Black Economic Empowerment, have been a source of frustration for some white people.
AP video by Alfonso Nqunjana
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