TOM EATON: The poster children of white nationalist grievance mythology
Facts are scarce, we don’t even know if all the ‘refugees’ are actually Afrikaners
Queuing in Crocs for a private plane doesn’t have quite the same ring as walking barefoot over the Drakensberg, but still, as 49 self-identified Afrikaners who also self-identify as persecuted head into self-imposed exiled in the US (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2025-05-12-first-white-sa-refugees-board-plane-for-us/), national myths still echo around OR Tambo International Airport.
Needless to say, the micro-exodus has sent parts of social media into frenzies of self-righteousness, with some critics denouncing the so-called refugees as inveterate racists while some supporters praise them as frontier homesteaders sensibly fleeing a hellscape...
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