Trump's accusations spark South Africa 'white privilege' self-mockery

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00:00I'm moving to the USA, bro.

00:01OK, why?

00:02Because I just got refugee status, son.

00:04OK, don't talk about it.

00:05South African comedian Boer Bosch

00:06sending up white privilege.

00:08Part of a wave of spoof videos on social media

00:11following US President Donald Trump's allegations

00:14that South Africa mistreats its white minority.

00:18What Daddy Trump says goes.

00:20Isn't that racist?

00:21I don't know, dude.

00:21Ask Elon.

00:22He offered refugee status to Afrikaners,

00:25the descendants of early European settlers,

00:28stating they were victims of unjust racial discrimination.

00:32Trump was attacking a land expropriation bill

00:35signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa,

00:37which is aimed at addressing racial disparities

00:40in land ownership.

00:41Another day.

00:42Comedian Leah Jazz posted this Instagram video

00:45titled, A Day in the Life of an Oppressed White South African.

00:48I then need to wash, so I have a dip in our pool,

00:50which is used for bathing and drinking

00:52as we have no running water.

00:53Then I sit down to apply for a job I'm not qualified for

00:56and cry when I don't get it.

00:57South African-born billionaire Elon Musk,

01:00now a key adviser to Trump,

01:01has amplified the president's attacks on South Africa.

01:04He wrote in a post on his social media platform X last week

01:08that the country has openly racist ownership laws.

01:12Trump's criticism has exacerbated stark divisions

01:15in South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid,

01:18partly because of yawning inequality

01:20between racial groups.

01:22Underscoring those divisions,

01:23the mostly white-led Democratic Alliance,

01:26the main coalition partner in Ramaphosa's unity government,

01:29said on Monday it had filed a legal challenge to the land law.

01:33The populist MK party, meanwhile,

01:35has filed a criminal complaint against AfriForum,

01:38which champions the white Afrikaner minority,

01:41accusing it of spreading misinformation

01:43to influence Trump.

01:44AfriForum has lobbied against the law

01:46in US media and political circles.

01:49He can decide how he puts pressure on South Africa.

01:52Portraying it as part of a wider onslaught

01:54on white Afrikaners.

01:55To put pressure particularly on the politician.

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