Dear President Trump,
On behalf of the Afrikaner people, I sincerely wish to thank you for your executive order pledging the support of your great country as to our human rights. Not only have you provided assistance in our applying for asylum in the U.S., but you have also bolstered our collective and individual rights in South Africa.
In my humble opinion, your order constitutes a watershed moment in our history, akin to the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, acknowledging the rights of Jewish people to a homeland in then British Palestine.
For that, we can only be eternally grateful to you. And dare I say it, in a hostile world, you have become our guardian and protector!
As your order so eloquently states, there are egregious actions being taken by the current regime in our country. We are being specifically targeted as a language and ethnic group; our right to education, to the enjoyment of our culture, our property rights, our ability to do business, as well as our safety and personal security are being trampled upon. A radicalized British-South-African judge, Raylene Keightley, handed down a court order authorizing genocidal propaganda against our people. She has legalized the odious slogan, “Kill a Boer, kill a farmer”, so that it may even be broadcast via radio, TV and on the internet.
In an irony of history, when the rest of the world was freed from communism in 1989, we were soon subjugated by a quasi-communist government that is hostile to us, to America, to the West, to private enterprise and the rule of law. For most of its existence, the ANC has been a front of the South African Communist Party, driven by the ideology of Marx and Lenin.
Without the active support of the ex-Soviet Union, Sweden, the Netherlands, East Germany and the British Labour Party, the ANC would never have come to power in South Africa. Those countries provided finance and explosives to effect a sinister regime change in our country and scupper an existing process of reform and democratisation. Through terrorism and propaganda, including terrible atrocities against black South Africans, the Swedish-Soviet alliance and its ANC proxy sapped the resolve of our previous leaders. The new regime acquired unfettered access to the state and all its resources which it soon set out to loot, plunder and strip to the bone.
Of course, the mainstream media hailed this as a “miracle”; to them the substance and the detail did not matter. These same media, both in America and South Africa, have attacked and defamed you personally. There is probably no country in the world where people, with the exception of us Afrikaners, are so anti-Trump and, by extension, so anti-American.
I have personally suffered for voicing my support and appreciation for your project to save America from wokeness.
For me, there is continuity between the British scorched-earth policy of 1900-1902 and the current campaign to ethnically cleanse us from South Africa. In the war on civilians in South Africa, Britain killed 34 000 of our women and children in concentration camps, as well as another 14 000 black children. Currently, this process is simply being reenacted under another name, sanctioned by leftists who hate our patriotism, family values, faith and honesty.
Many countries in Europe still maintain cultural and other boycotts against us and have made it clear that they consider us to be interlopers in Africa and South Africa. What arrogance, what mendacity! We have been here for almost 400 years, as long as Americans in America.
Through your courageous and benign act, you have reaffirmed our right to exist and to survive, for which we will be forever grateful.
But perhaps you could also help us to remind our enemies that more of our men died defending the West than ever perished defending our own freedom and sovereignty against the British invaders in 1877 and 1899. That is, when not counting the women and children who were starved to death in the British camps. Also in Korea, did we fight and die for the West.
For that reason alone, we deserve freedom and dignity, either in South Africa or in a new home abroad, such as in America.
Today we are strangers in the land of our forefathers and our future is dark. Whether we stay or depart in a new exodus, a second Great Trek to America, will depend on the international debate that must inevitably follow your executive order. Not since Mr. Ronald Reagan has an American president had the courage to try and protect our small Western nation on the southern tip of Africa.
We salute you, Mr. President!
God bless you and God bless America!
Yours faithfully,
Dan Roodt
Afrikaans author and activist
Prague, 11 February 2025
P.S. I have a valid American visa and could visit you or any American official in Washington at any time to brief you on our complex history and contemporary situation.
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