Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, grandson of the late Nelson Mandela, has sparked outrage by calling for criminal charges against Afrikaners who accepted asylum under President Donald Trump’s refugee program. The program, established in 2025, offers fast-tracked U.S. residency to white South African farmers (as well as other persecuted minorities in South Africa) facing land expropriation and violent attacks.
The statement has drawn fierce backlash and the U.S. State Department has yet to respond, but one has to think that President Trump’s administration may condemn the remarks as an assault on human rights.
Political analysts warn this could escalate tensions between Washington and Pretoria, as South Africa’s ruling party weighs legal action against the refugees—now U.S. residents.
More vicious persecution of the Afrikaners like this makes one think that the plight of the Afrikaner refugees are really legitimate and that their choice to leave was the right one.