Well, I guess they don't want them to leave?

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On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, a U.S.- refugee processing center in Johannesburg was raided by South African officials wearing khaki uniforms. The facility had been operating quietly, processing asylum applications from 'white' South Africans — many of them Afrikaner farmers — under provisions authorized by executive order. The raid was calculated, hostile, and executed while U.S. immigration agents were on site. It was not just interference. It was a direct act of aggression.

Earlier this year, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order directing the United States to open accelerated asylum pathways for white South African farmers and the Afrikaner community, citing their persecution under discriminatory policies by the South African government.

In a highly publicized Oval Office meeting on May 21, 2025, President Donald J. Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with video evidence and reports of violent attacks on white farmers—evidence Trump says illustrated systemic racial targeting and justified expanded asylum pathways for Afrikaners. Despite being shown this material, Ramaphosa publicly denied that the South African government was engaged in any policy of racial persecution or land seizure without compensation, asserting that the narratives Trump presented were false and politically motivated.

At the time, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had already signed the controversial Expropriation Act into law on 23 January, granting the government broader authority to seize land, including provisions to permit expropriations without compensation. Yet he stood face to face with President Donald J. Trump and denied it outright. This was a direct act of duplicitous behavior — a deliberate lie delivered at the highest diplomatic level.

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I was one of the refugee applicants at Johannesburg venue today. We were a family of who were undergoing our pre-screening interviews, fingerprinting and document scanning. In fact, I was 5 minutes into my interview when colleagues of the official conducting our online interview came in and shut the laptop citing urgent issues which required them to leave immediately. We were told someone would contact us with details to reschedule.

We were ushered back to the waiting area via the reception where individuals clothed in government uniform were filming everyone coming in and out of the waiting room with a cell phone. Multiple others arrived on the scene in multiple vehicles driving through the security check at the gate. A short while later, uniformed individuals walked into the waiting room, not paying us much attention, but obviously seeking the American immigration agents who had fled the building in a hurry.

They noted the signs up on the doors and walls with directions for refugee applicants. They were greeted by a lady and a young man who were what seemed to be refugee applicants who seemed to be familiar with them and told them that the Americans had just left. This lady and four officials were in the allocated fingerprinting room for some time where she seemed to be friendly and providing them with details.

We were then ushered in to hand in our folders and lanyards all the while being filmed without permission by a person in an unmarked vehicle. The officials mocked and intimidated the refugee applicants, saying things like, “Ah, shame. So many whiteies who were trying to run away to America.” The atmosphere was tense and very intimidating.

Of course, having handed in all electronic devices when we reached the venue. None of us could record the incident, seek assistance or clarity until after we had left the premises. We were filmed all the way to our car and our vehicle details were also recorded. We returned home not knowing what happened and how this will affect us.

On our way out to our car, we noted the refugees with their pack bags who were obviously scheduled to fly out this evening. We have no way of knowing if the register of applicants was taken from the security of the gate. We have no way of knowing if our family safety has been further compromised and fear retaliation.

A Pattern of Entrapment: Keeping the Producers Inside the Cage

This is not the first time white South Africans have faced quiet sabotage in their attempts to leave.
Even my in personal experience, my own son was denied a visitor’s visa to attend my wedding in the United States in 2017.

This is common. Why? Because white South Africans now make up only about 5-7 % of the South African population, yet the country’s tax burden is carried by a very small slice of income earners. According to the 2025 tax data, roughly 1.5 % of the population pays more than 60 % of personal income tax, and a narrow group of individuals shoulders most of the tax load — a structure that makes any disruptions among these contributors deeply consequential.

They are hated, vilified, and marginalized, yet they are too economically valuable to release.

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