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Trump's accusations spark South Africa 'white privilege' self-mockery
Guardian Nigeria
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2/12/2025
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I'm moving to the USA, bro.
00:01
OK, why?
00:02
Because I just got refugee status, son.
00:04
OK, don't talk about it.
00:05
South African comedian Boer Bosch
00:06
sending up white privilege.
00:08
Part of a wave of spoof videos on social media
00:11
following US President Donald Trump's allegations
00:14
that South Africa mistreats its white minority.
00:18
What Daddy Trump says goes.
00:20
Isn't that racist?
00:21
I don't know, dude.
00:21
Ask Elon.
00:22
He offered refugee status to Afrikaners,
00:25
the descendants of early European settlers,
00:28
stating they were victims of unjust racial discrimination.
00:32
Trump was attacking a land expropriation bill
00:35
signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa,
00:37
which is aimed at addressing racial disparities
00:40
in land ownership.
00:41
Another day.
00:42
Comedian Leah Jazz posted this Instagram video
00:45
titled, A Day in the Life of an Oppressed White South African.
00:48
I then need to wash, so I have a dip in our pool,
00:50
which is used for bathing and drinking
00:52
as we have no running water.
00:53
Then I sit down to apply for a job I'm not qualified for
00:56
and cry when I don't get it.
00:57
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk,
01:00
now a key adviser to Trump,
01:01
has amplified the president's attacks on South Africa.
01:04
He wrote in a post on his social media platform X last week
01:08
that the country has openly racist ownership laws.
01:12
Trump's criticism has exacerbated stark divisions
01:15
in South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid,
01:18
partly because of yawning inequality
01:20
between racial groups.
01:22
Underscoring those divisions,
01:23
the mostly white-led Democratic Alliance,
01:26
the main coalition partner in Ramaphosa's unity government,
01:29
said on Monday it had filed a legal challenge to the land law.
01:33
The populist MK party, meanwhile,
01:35
has filed a criminal complaint against AfriForum,
01:38
which champions the white Afrikaner minority,
01:41
accusing it of spreading misinformation
01:43
to influence Trump.
01:44
AfriForum has lobbied against the law
01:46
in US media and political circles.
01:49
He can decide how he puts pressure on South Africa.
01:52
Portraying it as part of a wider onslaught
01:54
on white Afrikaners.
01:55
To put pressure particularly on the politician.
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