{"id":295598,"date":"2025-05-19T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=295598"},"modified":"2025-05-19T05:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:10:40","slug":"peace-disruption-the-neo-exodus-in-the-21st-century-of-the-south-african-white-afrikaners-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/peace-disruption-the-neo-exodus-in-the-21st-century-of-the-south-african-white-afrikaners-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Disruption: The Neo Exodus, in the 21st Century, of the South African, White Afrikaners to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please note that this publication is rated for general readership. Parental guidance is advised for minors. The author, as a third generation, person of Indian origins and a Conflict Transformation Advocate, shares some of the developments in South Africa, after transition to democracy and the status of the minorities in the country post 1994. The author, having grown up in the heydays of apartheid regime, narrates his experiences of the privileged position of the white minority oppressing and discriminating, based on the colour of a person, under the white nationalist government. The reader is invited to comment and enter any discussion about the viewpoints expressed. The author records his unconditional apology if any offence is caused to any readers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The morphological diversity, within the human race, from evolution, is so multifaceted that it is often hard to believe that all humans belong to the same species of Homo sapiens, sapiens.[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Graphic Flow Chart indicating the reasons for diversity within the Human Race
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This publication is prompted by the Trump Administration, announcing that white South African, Afrikaners, are persecuted by the South African government [2]<\/a>, subjected to being murdered and land expropriation, by the black government that US is welcong them by granting them refugees status and fast tracking their visa applications.\u00a0 In fact as the author writes this paper, the White Afrikaners as distinct from back Africans, have already departed for United States by chartering a plane to take 49 families across this week, to the US.\u00a0 This has divided the nation, and created great peace disruptions between the government, who denies such persecution and the Afrikaners, who are adamant of their plight.\u00a0 This divergence of opinion has resulted in the neo-odyssey and the author will elaborate on the political, social and economic crises, both in South Africa, as well as in the US. The vision and commitment to\u00a0truth, justice, and reconciliation<\/strong>\u00a0are the guiding stars here. The challenge is:“The Afrikaner Exodus: A comparative case study in Post-Conflict Displacement, Retributive Justice, and the Search for Reconciliation; Land, Blood, and Memory: Can South Africa\u2019s White Exodus Lead to Peace?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The arrival of Jan van Reibeck and his team interacting with the local indigenous people in 1652 to the Cape of Good Hope, The progenitors of the South African Afrikaners
Photo Credit Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Historical Origins of the White, South African, Afrikaners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on paleoanthropological fossil evidence, uncovered by famous researchers like Professor Raymond Arthur Dart[3]<\/a> and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Professor Phillip Vallentine Tobias[4]<\/a>, a mentor of the author, as well, there is conclusive evidence that humankind originated in South Africa and to highlight the fact, The Cradle of Humankind [5]<\/a> In South Africa has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, in 1999[6]<\/a>.\u00a0 Notin this, the original, indigenous evolvants were dark skinned humans who expanded from Southern Africa to the rest of the world.\u00a0 Hence. In a geo-evolutionary scheme of ancient human history, the first nation in Southern Africa were Africans in a morphological classification of the human species.\u00a0 The other races came to Southern Africa, as imperial colonialists from their home countries, such as Britain, Portugal, Holland, Germany, and other countries, to invade, occupy, subjugate the local indigenous humans of the regions invades, force them into slavery and rule them.<\/p>\n

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This is in summary, as to how and why the white, imperial colonialists came to South Africa. In the case of the white South African Afrikaners, also called \u201cBoers\u201d (farmers) originated from Holland and the first white Afrikaner to arrive in the Cape of Good Hope was Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 [7]<\/a>from Holland.\u00a0 He and his ship load of team were in search of a sea route to the east to exploit the riches there and established a half way station in the present day Cape Town.\u00a0 These Boers were subsequently attacked by the British in numerous Anglo-Boer Wars until, the Boers migrated north, under tremendous hardships of attacks by black Africa tribes led by Zulu Kings such as King Shaka [8]<\/a>and his dynasty.\u00a0 The Boers also suffered illnesses like malaria, Tsetse fly infections Bilharzia and attacked by wild animals during this great migration, northwards called the Great Trek\u201d, from the tyrannical oppression of the British.\u00a0 Infact, Sir Winston Churchill, was also incarcerated in a Boer concentration [9]<\/a>camp from where he escaped and their odyssey at the time was akin to the Biblical narrative of Moses and his Exodus, with the children of Israel, to the promised land, from the tyranny of the Pharaoh, most likely Ramesis II.<\/p>\n

The historical origins of the white, South African Afrikaners are deeply rooted in European colonization, particularly involving Dutch, German, and French settlers. Here’s a concise overview of their development:<\/p>\n

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  1. Dutch Colonization (1652 Onward)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n