Image: CrankycowThe Trump administration intends to accept a further 10,000 Afrikaner refugees into the United States in addition to the 6,000 Afrikaners already accepted, raising the 2026 cap to 17,500. Meanwhile, several patriotic Afrikaner organizations appealed to President Trump to help Afrikaners stay in their ancestral home.On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was increasing the refugee cap for white South Africans because of “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation”, signing an executive order to “increase the ceiling to 17,500.” Trump blamed the South African government for “recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence”.Presidential Determination No. 2026-14 of May 21, 2026 finds that “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due to recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence on the part of the Government of South Africa.”“I hereby determine that the admission to the United States of Afrikaners from South Africa in response to this emergency is justified by the grave humanitarian concerns … and that an increase in the ceiling to 17,500 is warranted”, President Trump wrote.Afrikaner X page Volkstaat reports 500 Afrikaners leaving from Johannesburg International Airport OR Tambo every other day.About 500 Afrikaner Refugees leaving every other day, according to eyewitness reports at Johannesburg Airport.The South African Government deeply concerned over dwindling tax base as hundreds of thousands of thousands of Afrikaners (and other whites) leave, or have already… pic.twitter.com/DdAYg93wTg— Volkstaat (@Volkstaat10) March 24, 2026The South African Foreign Ministry spokesperson Chrispin Phiri denied accusations of systemic persecution of Afrikaners despite years of documentation of horrific farm murders through advocacy groups like AfriForum’s annual reports.AfriForum recorded 184 farm attack incidents and 29 farm murders for 2025. The number of farm attacks increased slightly from 176 in 2024 to 184 in 2025, while the number of farm murders declined from 37 in 2024 to 29 in 2025. Farm attacks are often marked by excessive cruelty and even torture, often against elderly farm couples on isolated holdings. Attackers often employ military tactics, overcoming security fences and other barriers with heavy-duty equipment such as radio jammers.The ANC government has also instituted a regimen of racial quotas (Black Economic Empowerment – BEE) that effectively shut white South Africans out of the labor market, and taken steps to eradicate the unique Afrikaner culture from education and public monuments. The ANC also continues to press for land expropriation without compensation and tolerates squatters illegally occupying private property.South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola attacked President Trump and MAGA in the South African Parliament on May 27 for ‘attacking black people.’“We know that in the US, the MAGA movement is very clear to attack black people. We know what they stand for. They stand against the human rights.”The South Africa Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has once again attacked President Donald Trump and the millions of Americans that voted for him:“We know, that in the US, the MAGA movement is very clear to attack black people. We know what… pic.twitter.com/vg3JYUnHLI— Conscious Caracal (@ConCaracal) May 27, 2026Ronald Lamola had previously accused President Trump of “White Supremacy” over the US boycott of the G20 summit in Johannesburg November 2025.The United States Bureau of African Affairs responded with a zinger, pointing out that “Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting “Kill the Boer.” If caring about your own citizens is MAGA, South Africa might want to give it a try.”FM @RonaldLamola, you blame concerns about violence and failed governance on “MAGA politics.” Ghana and Nigeria just airlifted their citizens out of your country. Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s Left-wing policies. Unemployment still… https://t.co/EfZQajDEHL— Bureau of African Affairs (@AsstSecStateAF) May 28, 2026While the Mainstream Media tried to pit Afrikaner lobby groups AfriForum and Solidarity against the Trump administration with fake quotes, Solidarity spokesman Jaco Kleynhans told the Gateway Pundit: “Solidarity do not oppose the US refugee program for Afrikaners. We welcome the Trump administration’s recognition of Afrikaner challenges – such as farm attacks, racial discrimination policies (e.g., BEE and expropriation), crime, and broader concerns over minority rights — as a significant diplomatic breakthrough. We view it as the first high-level US acknowledgment in years of Afrikaners as a distinct people facing real pressures. Our clear preference is for Afrikaners to remain and build their future in South Africa.”Since February last year we’ve welcomed the Trump administration’s recognition of the very real challenges facing Afrikaners in South Africa. Farm attacks, race-based policies such as BEE and expropriation without compensation, violent crime, and the erosion of minority rights…— Jaco Kleynhans (@JacoKleynhans) May 29, 2026The Cape Independence Advocacy Group sent an open letter to President Trump appealing for him to help Afrikaners stay in their ancestral home:Dear President Trump,We applaud and thank you for the very public stance you have taken on the problems we face here in South Africa. These issues are not new, but for whatever reason, the international community has largely continued to buy into the romantic notion of the Rainbow Nation long after the dream has turned into a nightmare for so many of us here. That you have been willing to speak out so candidly has been extremely helpful.Your decision to offer refugee protection to Afrikaners has had a profound effect on our society in general and on Afrikaners in particular. Once again, we thank you, but we are writing to you today to ask you to consider an alternative solution – one we believe to be better for Afrikaners, better for South Africa’s other marginalised peoples, and, most importantly of all from the United States’s perspective, better for you. Africa is our home. We can flee and it is a statistical fact that many have chosen to do so, but to flee is to surrender. When Americans were transforming an untamed frontier into the most advanced and powerful nation on earth, we were transforming Africa’s south into the most advanced and powerful nation in Africa. When Americans fought world tyranny, fascism, and communism, we stood with you. We stood with the best when it came to technology, medicine, art, and literature.In all sincerity and with great respect, we don’t want your pity, we want your help and support to defend our people and our civilization here in Africa.Since its relatively recent formation in 1910, South Africa has had many well publicised challenges. What is all too often overlooked is that their essence lay in the fundamental and profound differences between the various peoples who can happily coexist when they cooperate on equal terms, but who rightly oppose the domination of one by the other.Afrikaners and other minority groups do not need a new home. We love the one we have, we just need to be able to make our own decisions and to decide for ourselves how we want to be governed as opposed to having that dictated to us. This should be understood instinctively by all – in legal terms, we want to be able to exercise our inalienable and unquestionable right to self-determination and to pursue our economic and social development according to the policy we have freely chosen.In South Africa, for many peoples, democracy does not mean agency. Instead, it has been rendered a performative process which, as election results since 1994 empirically demonstrate, leaves minority communities powerless and at the mercy of the national majority. We vote, but we have no control over how we are governed, even in the parts of the country where we form the majority.Many South Africans share a Western outlook and heritage. Where our government has allied itself with China, Russia, and Iran, we are more ideologically aligned with the US and Europe.President Trump, we want you to consider an alternative foreign policy towards South Africa. We are part of a movement striving to create a homeland for those who share this Western character and outlook, where we can live, as international law prescribes, according to the values we ourselves have freely chosen.”The majority of people in the Western Cape and surrounding areas share this Western character. Since 1994, most have never once voted for the ANC, but they have never been governed by anyone else. Afrikaans is the most widely spoken language, not just by white South Africans, but also by the so-called ‘coloured’ people, many of whom have experienced marginalisation under both white and black-led governments alike.Our own homeland – a revived Cape of Good Hope, Cape Independence – will do more for Afrikaners and other minorities than refugee status ever can.Critically, we are not asking for altruism. The Cape of Good Hope has much to offer its allies. The strategic significance of Southern Africa and the Cape Sea Route is well understood, as are the South African government’s growing alignments with powers increasingly hostile to Western interests. No outcome would better serve the long-term strategic interests of the United States and its allies than the peaceful emergence of a democratic, Western-aligned partner at the southern tip of Africa.Polling has consistently confirmed that the people of the Western Cape favour a referendum on Cape Independence. Unsurprisingly, the political establishment has done all that it can to prevent the Western Cape people being heard on this issue.Our request, President Trump, is this: If you want to help Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa in the way that offers us a multi-generational future on the African continent, we ask that the United States publicly support the democratic right of the people of the Western Cape to determine their own constitutional future through a referendum, and to engage directly with both the South African National Government and the Western Cape Provincial Government to encourage such a process and to emphasise that its democratic outcome should be respected.We stand at a crossroads. We cannot exist outside of Africa. Our languages will be lost, our cultures absorbed, our flame extinguished. We have earned our place in the history books; our fight now is to secure our place in the future. Help us to do that.‍Yours sincerely,Phil CraigFor and on behalf of the Cape Independence Advocacy GroupThe post SOUTH AFRICA: President Trump Signs EO to Accept 17,500 Afrikaner Refugees while ANC Minister Accuses MAGA of “Attacking Black People” – USA Responds with a Zinger! appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.