This meeting is about genocide, but not the mythological “white genocide” it’s pretending to be about. It’s about the US punishing South Africa for taking Israel to the ICJ.
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I’ve been feeling this so much lately, but it’s still shocking to see in print.
Also… the 1970s cohort?!? As if we needed more proof the end of the social welfare state is killing us.
As Trump bans US officials from attending the G20 in South Africa due to ‘Afrikaner genocide,’ he can only find 3 Afrikaner ‘refugees’ willing to move to the US! www.news24.com/citypress/ne...
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I should start a column called: why is Trump mad at South Africa today? Because we won't let him bring Kenyans on volunteer visas to work (not volunteer!) at a processing site for Afrikaner 'refugees.' The US created a precarious immigrant workforce in SA to vet immigrants who are not precarious.
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Far fewer ‘refugees’ arrived for their flights than were catered for. Despite this, the US government has targeted resettlement of 6 000 people by the end of November.
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On Tuesday, 16 December, a Johannesburg centre processing applications for South Africans wishing to take up ‘refugee’ status was raided by Home Affairs officials and the police. We break it down.
"For the generations coming up behind the baby boomers, what this analysis describes is less a temporary stumble in an otherwise upward march than a long-running warning sign that has been building for decades."
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Americans born after 1970 are dying at higher rates than earlier generations, and a new study warns the worst is still ahead.
I started working on this project with the Black Sash in 2016. I can’t believe that a decade later, the book is a real, material object in the world. I’m so very proud of it and I’d love to speak to your classes and departments! And, @dukepress.bsky.social is having a sale!
More good news: you can get it in South Africa from Jacana Media!
