Donald Trump's championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "We can sum up Orania's response to Donald Trump in three words: help us, here," said Frans de Klerk, a leader in Orania, which has its own currency and maintains a series of monuments to Afrikaner leaders including the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd.
54% : "You'll find a lot of support for Trump here because of what he has done for the Afrikaner," said van Niekerk, who lives in the Pango squatter camp near the former gold mining boomtown of Krugersdorp.
45% : Since coming to office in January, Trump has offered asylum to Afrikaners "escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination", cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the country's HIV/Aids programme, and expelled South Africa's ambassador to the US.
44% : Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The last bastion of Afrikaner blood-and-soil nationalism in South Africa is basking in the attention of the world's most powerful man after Donald Trump took up their cause.
39% : In his broadsides against South Africa, Trump has picked up on a central claim repeated by a fringe of rightwing Afrikaners that the country's post-apartheid governments have enabled a campaign of "violent attacks" against white farmers.
33% : Flip Buys, head of the Solidarity Movement, said his organisation only wanted Trump to pressure South Africa to abandon economically damaging laws.

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