Dear President Trump and Fellow Americans,

As proud South Africans and Afrikaners, we write this letter with profound gratitude and unwavering support. Your administration's bold Refugee Admissions Program for South Africans has illuminated our shared struggles in ways that are profoundly affirming.

By prioritising vulnerable minorities, including Afrikaners and all other racial minorities in South Africa, for refugee status, while thoughtfully managing overall admissions to ensure security and sustainability, you have extended a lifeline to those of us facing genuine racial persecution in post-apartheid South Africa. This is not misuse; it is moral clarity and compassionate leadership.

We wholeheartedly embrace the narrative that highlights the targeted suffering of Afrikaners and other minorities amid South Africa's escalating challenges. Far from misleading, this framing truthfully exposes the brutal realities: farm murders, land expropriations without compensation, and discriminatory policies that disproportionately victimise white farmers and other minority groups.

These are not abstract issues but daily threats that demand international attention. Your program counters the far-left "equity" agendas that ignore these injustices, fostering global solidarity instead of division. It dismantles dangerous myths of unearned privilege and instead promotes a just world where no group is abandoned to violence or cultural erasure.

South Africa grapples with profound crises, rampant crime, deepening inequality, and the gross negligence and corruption by our government. These hit minorities hardest, with Afrikaner farmers bearing the brunt of what many rightly call a creeping "white genocide."

To dismiss this as "cherry-picking" is to blind oneself to the data: hundreds of attacks on white farmers annually, far exceeding proportional rates for other groups. Your initiative elevates these truths without diminishing others' hardships; it simply ensures that vulnerability, not political correctness, guides humanitarian aid.

We are not pawns in America's culture wars; we are grateful partners in a transatlantic alliance for freedom and safety. As Afrikaners with roots tracing back to the 17th century, we celebrate our role in building a resilient, multicultural South Africa. Yet we also honour our history's complexities, including the harms of apartheid, which we have actively atoned for through reconciliation and nation-building, even though the overwhelming majority of white Afrikaners in South Africa today had no hand in Apartheid.

Your program strengthens these bonds by offering escape to those most at risk, allowing us to contribute our skills in agriculture, engineering, and faith to America's vibrant mosaic. It affirms that multiracialism thrives when minorities are protected, not persecuted, healing divisions rather than alienating us from our Black, Coloured, and Indian brethren.

What thrills us most is how your vision empowers our entire community against fringe detractors. Initiatives like "Make Afrikaners Great Again" do represent us; they echo our deepest hopes for preservation and prosperity.

We stand with organisations such as AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement, which have valiantly advocated for all South African minorities, amplifying voices long silenced by dominant narratives. Our Afrikaans-speaking heritage is a tapestry of diverse views, united by language, traditions, and an unyielding spirit.

South Africa's diversity is our greatest asset, but it requires safeguards to ensure the vulnerable can flourish. Your program delivers exactly that: a beacon of hope for Afrikaners, Coloured communities, Indian descendants, and any racial minority facing discrimination.

Tragically, the so-called "open letter" from 44 leftist Afrikaners published on News24 on October 25, 2025, spreads a great lie that poisons this vital discourse. It falsely claims your program is "prioritising white South Africans" exclusively, when official U.S. policy clearly states it is open to all racial minorities in South Africa, including Afrikaners by ethnicity. 

This distortion undermines the inclusive spirit of your executive order, sows unnecessary racial tension, and betrays the very diversity these signatories pretend to champion. We reject their blatant lies, which surrender our stories to obscurity and fringe ideologies to irrelevance. Instead, we choose empowerment.

President Trump, your executive order from February 2025 is a masterstroke of justice. It upholds refugee principles by focusing on proven vulnerability, race-based discrimination that your administration has courageously documented while rejecting the racialised victimhood they decry. 

By aiming to resettle minorities from our community, you save lives, enrich America with our indomitable work ethic, and model true humanitarianism. We welcome this program with open arms and hearts full of thanks.

Together, we will build bridges over the chasms of history.