OPINION:
Ignored by those who find the Trump administration’s welcoming of Afrikaner refugees from South Africa controversial is the dark reason whites in South Africa fear for their future (“South Africans land in U.S. after offered refugee status by Trump administration,” Web, May 12).
The 140 discriminatory laws and regulations imposed on whites by the regime of South African President Ramaphosa are part of a deliberate strategy to disinherit and dispossess white South Africans.
President Ramaphosa is on record as likening it to cooking a frog in water. The frog does not notice the gradual increase in the temperature of the water until it is too late. Thus, the Ramaphosa regime has been incrementally transferring wealth, land and economic power from whites to Black South Africans over the past two decades.
The irony of the strategy is that it has not benefited the bulk of South Africa’s Black population, which is now more impoverished than ever.
DUNCAN DU BOIS
Durban, South Africa
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