Nelson Mandela’s Great-Grandson Urges Trump to Deport White South Africans

Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, has called on U.S. President Donald Trump to deport the Afrikaners he accepted as refugees.

“If Trump is honest, he should deport those people because they don’t qualify to be refugees in the United States of America,” Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela told Newsweek. “Once they land here in South Africa, we must arrest them.”

In May, Trump alleged that a genocide against white Afrikaner people is taking place in South Africa and has accepted more than 60 into the United States as refugees, despite Trump’s immigration crackdown that has seen other asylum seekers, from Africa and elsewhere, turned away.

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The first group of 59 people arrived on a charter flight at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on May 13, welcomed by senior officials from the Trump administration.

Smaller groups have followed on commercial flights, according to Amerikaners, a group that supports “disenfranchised South Africans seeking a new future in the United States.”

“The resettlement program is being scaled and the numbers will increase radically within the next three months,” a spokesperson told Newsweek.

Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela opened a criminal case against the group on June 12, accusing them of “treason, spreading misinformation and incitement against South Africa,” according to an affidavit viewed by Newsweek.

“I believe they should face prison,” he said. “White genocide is a very serious allegation and in South Africa we know that there is no white genocide. It’s a country where there is crime, like every other country.”

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Mandela, 31, has grown increasingly critical of his great-grandfather’s party, the African National Congress (ANC), over the years calling it a “barrier to true freedom.”

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Earlier this year, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela joined the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a growing opposition party headed by Julius Malema—the man seen leading chants of “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” in the videos Trump played during his White House chat with Ramaphosa.

Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela also called for the Afrikaans civil rights organizations AfriForum and Solidarity to face criminal charges, for “actively promoting and facilitating the dissemination of this false narrative globally.”

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