U.S. President Donald Trump has given refugee status to South Africa's Dutch community in South Africa, and the accusation of genocide occurred in the country.

Nearly 60 of them have arrived in the United States after being granted asylum.

The South African government allowed the U.S. embassy to consider their application in the country and had the group committee conduct a charter flight from the main international airport in Johannesburg, which had nothing to do with refugees fleeing persecution.

South African History Online summarizes their identities, pointing out that “modern Africa Dutch are mainly from Western Europeans who settled in the southern tip of Africa in the mid-17th century.”

South Africa’s historically pointed out that they merged Dutch (34.8%), German (33.7%) and French (13.2%) settlers, who formed a “unique cultural group”, noted online that they “completely relate to African soil” to identify themselves.

Their language is Afrikaans and is very similar to that of the Dutch.

But when they were rooted in Africa, Afrikaans and other white communities forced blacks to leave the land.

The Afrikaans are also known as Boers, which actually means farmers, and the group is still closely related to agriculture.

In 1948, the Afrikaan-led government in South Africa introduced segregation or apartments, elevating segregation to a more extreme level.

This includes laws prohibiting interracial marriage, retaining many skilled and semi-skilled jobs for whites and forcing blacks to live in so-called towns and homes.

They were also denied a decent education, with South Dutch leader Hendrik Verwoerd notoriously saying in the 1950s: "Black people should never show it to greener educational ranches. They should know that their place of residence is the person who draws the wood and water".

South Africa’s South African Party rule ended in 1994 when blacks were allowed to vote for the first time in national elections, bringing Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) to power.

Currently, Africa Dutch are over 2.5 million - about 4% of the population over 60 million.

None of South Africa's political parties - including those representing the Dutch and white communities in general - claiming that South Africa has genocide.

However, this statement has been circulating among right-wing groups for many years, and Trump also mentioned genocide during his first term.

These claims stem from attacks on white farmers or misleading information distributed online.

In February, a South African judge saw the idea of ​​genocide as “clearly imagined” and “not real” when ruled in an inheritance case involving a wealthy benefactor donating to white supremacist group Boerelegioen.

South Africa has not released crime data based on race, but the latest data shows that between October 2024 and December 2024, 6,953 people were murdered in the country.

Of these, 12 people were killed in the farm attack. Of the 12, one was a farmer, five were farm residents and four were employees, who were probably black.

In defending his decision to grant refugee status to Africa Dutch, Trump said there was “genocide” in South Africa, white farmers were “brutally killed” and their “land was confiscated.”

Trump said he is not sure how he will attend the World Leaders Summit in South Africa later this year.

He added: "Unless this situation is resolved, I don't know what to do."

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that claiming that “people of a certain race or culture are targeted at the persecutor”.

He refers to the first group that moved to the United States, and he said: “They are leaving because they don’t want to embrace the changes that are happening in our country and the constitution.”

The government denied that farmers were seizing land, saying the bill signed in January was intended to address the land deprivation faced by blacks during the white minority rule.

But the law was condemned by the Alliance for Democracy (DA), a major alliance of the government of Ramaphosa. DA said it will challenge the law in the South African Supreme Court because it threatens property rights.

Elon Musk, a close adviser to Trump, was born in South Africa, mentioned the country’s “racist ownership laws” and claimed that his satellite internet service provider Starlink “does not allow operating in South Africa just because I’m not black.”

To operate in South Africa, Starlink requires network and service licenses, both of which require 30% ownership of historically vulnerable groups.

This is primarily a guide to the majority of the Black population in South Africa, which is turned away in apartheid racist system.

The Independent Communications Agency of South Africa (ICASA) is the regulator of the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors - told the BBC that Starlink never filed a license application.

Musk also accused South Africa’s fourth largest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF), of “actively promoting” genocide through the song it sang at the rally.

The trademark song by EFF leader Julius Malema is "Shooting Boole, Shooting Farmers", who sang at a political rally.

Afrikaan Hall groups tried to ban the song, saying it was highly inflammatory and constituted hate speech.

However, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that Melema had the right to sing lyrics at political gatherings – first popularizing in the fight against apartheid.

The court ruled that "a well-known person" would understand that when "the protest song is sung, even if it is sung by a politician, these words are not understandable, nor is the gesture of a shooting being understood as a call to weapons or a call to violence".

Instead, the song is the “provocative way” to advance the EFF’s political agenda, namely ending “land and economic injustice.”

Lobbying Afriforum appealed the ruling, but South Africa's Supreme Court refused to hear the case, saying it had few chances of success.

In 2023, South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki urged Malema to stop singing the song and said that this is no longer politically relevant as the fight against apartheid ends.

The ANC says it no longer sings, but can't "prescriptions to other political parties what they have to sing".

It doesn't look like it.

In March, a conglomerate said nearly 70,000 Afrikaners expressed interest in moving to the U.S. after Trump’s proposal - an estimated population of 2.5 million.

On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in South Africa issued a statement illuminating the criteria for resettlement, saying it covers people from any ethnic minority, not only Afrikaans, Who can quote past persecutions or fear future persecution events.

A recent census conducted in South Africa in 2022 shows that people of color (formally used term, meaning people of mixed origins of ethnic origin) are the largest ethnic minority, accounting for 8% of the population. Following closely behind are whites, including Afrikaners, accounting for 7% and Asians at 3%.

Following Trump’s proposal, the Dutch Lobby of South Africa, Unity posted an article on its website: “Ten Historical Reasons to Stay in South Africa.”

In parliament last week, the right-wing Liberal Front plus party leaders said they were committed to South Africa.

"We are bound to Africa and will build a future for ourselves and our children," said Corné Mulder.