kYle believes that God was looking for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only one black eye and a fractured rib. The robber failed to make the kettle and iron work properly and therefore could not burn anyone. Then, the gun was interrupted when it tried to shoot Kyle on the spine.

"They specifically said they were going back to this farm...that was their land." The 43-year-old said he didn't want to use his full name. "Only afterwards, we found out that the person who was left in the plot was actually killed... Farmer... I don't know what his name is."

Kyle, a three divorced father, is one of thousands of South Africans who want to accept the refugee status proposed by Donald Trump to evade crime, claiming to discriminate against white people.

The Trump administration’s support for these claims while preventing other new refugee arrivals was uncomfortable in the conversation about how far racial reconciliation still had to go in the thirty years after the end of white minority rule.

Now, the U.S. president’s proposal is “Oh my goodness,” Kyle, a salesman who works remotely for overseas companies: “I have white kids, and they’re at the bottom of the list of hiring here. So, they don’t have a future for the future.

The White Afrikaan Dutch government has quarantined in all aspects of race from interpersonal relationships to places where they were allowed to live during segregation, suppressing the black majority in South Africa while keeping white minorities safe and better.

South Africa has remained very unequal for more than 30 years since the end of the system. For example, the unemployment rate for blacks in South Africa is 46.1%, while that for whites is 9.2%.

Affirmative action created a black elite, but also cultivated a sense of disenfranchise among some white South Africans. According to a 2023 settlement barometer, a survey by the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation shows that less than two-thirds of South Africans agree that apartheid deprives black people of livelihoods, suing three-thirds of South Africans.

"The level of contact and interaction among South Africans in different ethnic groups has not changed substantially," said Kate Lefko-Everett, the author of the report.

High violent crime rates in South Africa - In the last quarter of 2024, nearly 7,000 murders affected everyone, according to police numbers. But this also adds to some white people's siege mentality. According to the 2022 African American statistics, almost two-thirds of white people are considering immigration, while 27% of South Africans are.

The New York Times reported in March that more than 8,200 people were interested in U.S. refugee status. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria declined to comment.

Chilly Chomse, a 43-year-old carpenter, said he wanted to claim asylum for his four daughters.

He moved to the only white, Afrikaan town of Orania, who was working during the 19th pandemic, but he said he didn't promise like some residents: "Once you leave this Orania premise, you're still in South Africa, you're still unsafe...you can't stay here on 24/7 in your life."

While some English-speaking South Africans like Kyle hope that refugee programs will include them as well, Trump’s February executive order mentioned “Minority Afrikaners.” It claims a recently signed South African law that permitting land acquisition in limited circumstances would allow the government to occupy the property of the Dutch, while national policies “intensify disproportionate violence against racially discriminatory landowners” (longstanding far-right proposition).

Chomse’s friend Esté Richter in Orania heard about Trump’s refugee policy, she initially disbelieves. "Then, I felt like someone heard us, someone heard Afrikaans crying," said Richter, 35.

"The main reason we are studying refugee programs is that in September 2022, my husband's father was murdered on his farm," she said. Richter's mother-in-law was burned with hot iron, beaten and abandoned in the bushes, but survived.

African rights group Afriforum met with Trump allies during his first term, claiming that the South African government was “complice” in the murder of white farmers. The organization, with 300,000 members, continues to claim that “Africa is the target”.

Rudolph Zinn, a professor at Limpopo University, noted that South African police data on farm attacks - listed 12 murders in the "agricultural community" in the last quarter of 2024, including small black farms and non-commercial plots.

"It's definitely not about any political motivation or a specific race. It's all about money," he said.

Sinn said the imprisoned farm robbers he interviewed said they would tailor their language to instill as much fear as possible to get victims to hand over cash and valuables. “If it was a white victim, then they would say, ‘I hate you because you have taken over our land.’ But when it was a black victim, the same criminal would say, ‘You are coconut, the outside is black, but you are white inside. ''''

Afriforum, which promotes South Africa's stay in South Africa, and potential refugees have both raised controversial killings of Boer songs, which is why they are worried. The South African court ruled in 2022 that the song was sung by populist, left-wing economic freedom fighters at a political rally, and it was not literally.

Others say South Africa risked "white genocide" a repeated conspiracy claim by Trump billionaire and South African-born adviser Elon Musk.

Sam Busa, a 60-year-old business consultant of British descent, wants to seek asylum for herself and her three adult sons. She set up a “Amerikaners” website and social media page to spread information and collected 30,000 signatures to thank Trump for his refugee status.

"Personally, we are at an advanced stage in which genocide may be developing. This is effective in making any arguments about economic status," she said.