Top Us Official Praises Afrikaners: 'the Sort Of Immigrants We Want'

US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has heaped praise on the South African Afrikaner community, describing them as the sort of immigrants we want.

Citing false claims of government-sponsored race-based discrimination against Afrikaners in South Africa, US President Donald Trump offered members of the community refugee status in America in February.

In a post on Truth Social on 7 March, he added that the offer comes with a rapid pathway to citizenship.

Reacting to Trumps post, Rollins praised Afrikaners for their strong tradition of South African agriculture, ranching and conservation that goes back centuries.

It reflects above all else the Afrikaner devotion to land and heritage. Pioneers in the best tradition, they made gardens of the wilderness and transformed their country into the breadbasket of a continent, she wrote on X .

Our President's vision is the right one: this is the sort of immigrant we want, and if the South African regime now - kleptocratic, anarchic and increasingly incompetent - does not want this historic class of entrepreneurs, then America does.

The Trump administration claims South Africas Expropriation Act is a land confiscation tool targeting Afrikaners and thus constitutes discrimination.

However, the government maintains that it is aimed at achieving redress for South Africans who were previously marginalised and dispossessed of land by apartheid.

Citing the book A Country of Two Agricultures by economist Wandile Sihlobo, President Cyril Ramaphosa recently said black farmers currently account for just 10 percent of the commercial output in South Africas agriculture.

Our growth agenda must therefore have a bias towards the empowerment of black farmers, he added.