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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says none of the Afrikaners who left South Africa for the United States last week under refugee status are farmers, but instead appeared to be “car guards”.

Malema says Afrikaner asylum seekers look like ‘car guards’, not farmers

The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said that had AfriForum chief executive Kallie Kriel and his former deputy, Ernst Roets, have sought asylum in the US, they would have become ‘hobos’

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. (Jairus Mmutle/GCIS)

Solidarity threatens Ntshavheni with defamation over ‘inflammatory rhetoric’

The trade union has accused the minister in the presidency of weaponising discourse instead of focusing on facts

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
Afrikaner refugees from South Africa holding American flags arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US welcomes Afrikaner refugees: Hypocrisy or humanitarian?

The claim by the Trump administration that they are refugees is an abuse of the word

  • Sheree Bega
12 min read