TOM EATON | Afrikaner dilemma: how much oxygen can you give a small group in the age of the big grab?
What was in the minds of those who held up banners reading ‘Make South Africa Great Again’? asks Tom Eaton
18 February 2025 - 04:30
As I watched a large group of self-proclaimed Afrikaners gather outside the US embassy in Pretoria to thank Donald Trump for using them as pawns in the geopolitics of white grievance, I knew that I would have to tread very carefully when it came time to write about them...
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