White South African family couple whose farm is under racial attack beg to emigrate to Trumps USA
A desperate pair of white South African farmers are begging the commander-in-chief to help them flee the embattled nation and settle in United States.Onion and potato farmers Zenia and Ludwich Pretorius told The Post they’ve been the victim of violent attacks since July — and driven off their land by their neighbors solely because of the color of their skin, as local police do nothing.“To be perfectly honest with you I burst into tears of joy when Trump came into office,” Zenia Pretorius 46, told The Post by phone from the city of Polokwane, where they have been living in fear since August.Zenia, her husband Ludwich and their three young children, ages 13, 12 and 9, are now keenly hoping to take advantage of President Trump’s executive order granting refugee status to South Africans like themselves, who have been victimized by laws that target them because they are white.The order was precipitated by a new law in the country which would allow land expropriation without compensation — though no date has been set for it to take effect.The law echoes similar “land reform” legislation by Zimbabwe during the 1980s, which saw the state snatch land from white farmers en masse, which swiftly led to the economic collapse of that nation.“We are ready to go and the kids are ready to go … My daughter knows which sports she wants to do — we are ready to go tomorrow.
” said Zenia.The family’s saga was first reported by South Africa’s Sunday Times.Attacks on white landowners has been an ongoing issue in South Africa.In 2023 there were 49 murders and 296 attacks on white farmers, according to the South African NGO AfriForum.The Pretorius family — multi-generational South Africans — first purchased the farm in 2002.
The land abuts the neighboring community of Taaibos, an informal government settlement — about 175 miles north of Johannesburg.Over the years the family become used to illegal trespassing, poaching, and petty theft.Such offenses la...