TOM EATON: US fleet will not be reinstating apartheid at gunpoint
Trump’s far too busy shaking down Ukraine for half its mineral wealth and planning hotels and casinos for Gaza
18 February 2025 - 05:00
As I watched a large group of self-proclaimed Afrikaners gather outside the US embassy in Pretoria to thank Donald Trump for using them as pawns in the geopolitics of white grievance, I knew I would have to tread carefully when it came time to write about them.
The trouble, you see, is that I have some experience of writing about small, unhappy groups of South Africans who want to enact policies that would plunge this country into violent chaos — usually Julius Malema and his Church of Latter-Day Fakes — and whenever I do I always get asked the same annoyed question by the same annoyed readers. ..
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