Amid the Donald Trump vs everyone in South Africa saga, social media has revealed that mzansi schools might not all have the same syllabus as citizens have failed to come to a consensus regarding mzansi’s rich and complicated history.
Donald Trump’s recent spotlight on South Africa has not only triggered a bout of intense emotions from SA citizens but has also exposed a need for a collective history lesson as internet users continue to go back and forth regarding who settled on South African land first between black people and the Boers.
After condemning the South African government for passing ill-treating white South African farmers, as well as passing inhumane laws which seek to target and put this group at a disadvantage, Donald Trump offered a once-in-a-lifetime liferaft for Afrikaaners specifically, granting them refugee status in the United States. However, in an interesting turn of events, AfriForum and various other groups have declined Trump’s generous offer, citing that they want to stay and fight for their native land instead.
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— Dr Wandile Kasibe, Ph.D. (@wandile24796727) February 8, 2025
As far as common knowledge as well as NZ History is concerned, the Boers, whose heritage can be traced back to the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries arrived in South Africa around 1652, where they sought to settle among the natives of the land and establish a European culture and presence in Africa.
It appears a significant portion of mzansi’s demographic does not agree with this recollection of history, and believes that this take is false. According to these users, the Boers or Afrikaaners are the real natives of South African land,
South Africa proves that leftism is just anti-White hate. The Boers lived there before the Bantu. All they want is to work and produce. They stole nothing, and they provide almost all the tax revenue in the country. The Western left hates them solely because they are White.
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) February 4, 2025
No blacks were native to South Africa until the Boers came.
The onky exception might be the Zulus, but they’re just as much targets of the AfricanNiggerCommunists as the Whites are.
Also, you’re Jewish. You don’t get a say. And you’re a heretic. pic.twitter.com/U7Y5ZaVD4D
— MAGA Seal (@maggleramax4893) February 9, 2025
We’re way more native than the bantus ? They came here long after us boy. Sorry to shatter your bs fantasy. Go educate yourself and stop acting smart on the internet
— Oroku Saki (Kanpai!) ?️ ㊙️ ?☠️ (@OrokuSa1979) February 9, 2025
This line of thinking is not only false but it is also dangerous as it invalidates a significant part of South African history that still needs to be addressed in the present day. Concepts such as colonialism and apartheid were a direct result of Boer ancestors committing brutal crimes against natives in order to conquer the land, which appears to root cause of the current commotion and racial tension in the country.
This situation has proven to be extremely triggering for Black South Africans who have tirelessly attempted to shift this baseless and non-factual narrative as it could result in dangerous repercussions for them. They have also raised valid points, posing the question that if Boers are native to South Africa, why were they referred to as Europeans merely 30 years ago during apartheid.
The same people that spent nearly 50 years of Apartheid telling us they are Europeans and setting up “Europeans only” signs and enforcing racist discrimination are suddenly telling us they are “indigenous Africans”. When did they stop being Europeans and become Africans? pic.twitter.com/B67lle2eay
— Unathi Afrika (@UnathiAfrika) February 8, 2025
Laws and policies such as the expropriation bill are just some of the ways that the government attempts to provide equity and equality for all who live in South Africa.
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