Guardian Australia · South Africa

How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution

· By Eve Fairbanks
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When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality. But no one flourishes in a repressive police state

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