South African–born entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted in response to a video of black South Africans chanting “Kill the Boer” (not for the first time) that

They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?

They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 31, 2023

Elon Musk, though white, is an African-American in the sense that he’s an American who was born in Africa—something that has been claimed by the white Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry, born in Portuguese East Africa, and educated at a convent school in South Africa, who reportedly dared to call herself “African-American” in front of black audiences [The Candidate’s Wife, by Judith Thurman, New Yorker, September 19, 2004].

But white people are not “supposed” to be in Africa, according to the Liberal Consensus, so it’s OK to oppress them.

In Time To Rethink Immigration [National Review, June 22, 1992], VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow pointed out the effect that ethnicity has on politics:

These political consequences need not threaten the integrity of the state (polity)—just its foreign policy.

Thus domestic ethnic-group pressure clearly plays a role in Washington’s essentially contradictory attitudes to the white settler communities of southern Africa and the Middle East.

That’s a delicate way of saying that the U.S. Government was willing to betray its former allies in Rhodesia and white-ruled South Africa to dispossession or death, but doesn’t seem likely to do anything of the sort to Israel.

In now black-ruled South Africa, whites are frequently savagely murdered by blacks, especially if they live on isolated farms.

South African farmer Theo Bekker (79) was brutally murdered by 4 thugs yesterday

The attackers beat him with an iron bar, slit his throat, and then beat his wife Marlinda

This came 24 hours after EFF leader Julius Malema told a crowd of 90k people to “kill the Boer (Whites),… pic.twitter.com/mbz0V20yVS

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 31, 2023

This is just the most recent example: Kenn Gividen, who covers black-on-white murders in America, also has a monthly report on South African Farm Murders, which are still illegal, and sometimes punished—although never with the death penalty. (One of the first acts of the Constitutional Court of the “liberated”  South Africa in 1995 was to abolish the death penalty—after which the murder rate exploded.)

It’s considered racist to raise what’s happening to whites in South Africa—or so says Ishaan Tharoor in the Washington Post—Elon Musk raises the specter of ‘white genocide,’ August 1, 2023.

🤦‍♀️"South African white rights activists have found an audience among the American far right, who see a bizarre parable for the fate that may await them in SA whites’ supposed vulnerability to the predations of hostile Blacks & neglect by a Black-maj govt"https://t.co/9sgDot362e

— Catesby Holmes @Catesby.bsky.social (@CatesbyHolmes) August 2, 2023

Also, Tharoor seems okay with seizing white land—apparently more so than the current government of South Africa!

Close to three-quarters of private farmland in South Africa is white-owned and some advocates for land reform view redistribution as a fundamental part of dismantling the legacy of apartheid, which was built on the legal dispossession of the nation’s Black majority. (The ANC, for its part, has said it doesn’t want to repeat the economic turmoil that followed expropriation of white land in neighboring Zimbabwe.)

There’s a lot wrong with that statement, the most obvious point being that there were no farms in South Africa when only the blacks lived there, any more than there were farms in America when only Red Indians lived here. Whites created the agricultural industry in both countries, and confiscating the farms of white Rhodesians has caused  starvation in “neighboring Zimbabwe,” whose population is only 15 million.

South Africa has over 60 million people, and the ruin of the remaining farming sector of its economy would be devastating.

I should say that it was also considered racist to raise the issue of South African Farm Murders when Donald Trump did it in 2018.

I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2018

Reporters Outraged President Trump Brings Up South Africa https://t.co/AIKxi7Utnz pic.twitter.com/FTPEdq7UM4

— VDARE (@vdare) August 23, 2018

The only reason you can see that first tweet above is because Elon Musk bought Twitter and restored the former President’s account.

Here at VDARE.com, we’ve been writing about South Africa for a long time, partly because Peter Brimelow was a conservative journalist long enough ago that mainstream conservative outlets like National Review (which employed and later purged him) supported—partly for Cold War reasons—white rule in Rhodesia and South Africa.

(If you go back far enough, you can find National Review supporting white rule in America! [Why the South Must Prevail, National Review, August 24, 1957].)

Here’s a round-up of our archive of South African and Rhodesian/Zimbabwean postings:

In 2012, there was a black riot police on black rioters shooting that was reminiscent of the legendary “Sharpeville Massacre”.

• Black Police Kill Black Miners ”In A Spectacle That Reminded Many South Africans Of The Apartheid Past” And Everyone Else Of ALL THE OTHER GOVERNMENTS IN AFRICA
• A Reader Sympathizes With Black South African Miners Killed By Black South African Police
• More On The Non-Sharpeville Massacre In South Africa
• Trevor Noah On The Murderous Miners Of Marikana

As I explained in a number of posts on VDARE.com, the legendary “Sharpeville Massacre” was, as a government inquiry found at the time, justifiable homicide.

• Rivonia, Cato Manor, Sharpeville And Mandela
• A Reader Says People These Days Don’t Know Who The Good Guys Are Anymore
• The Fulford File: The Haymarket Martyrs, And Other Riot Lies

Both the black riot police of Marikana and the white riot police at Sharpeville in 1960 were facing black rioters who would literally tear them apart if they didn’t defend themselves.

The late Sam Francis wrote about the horrors of Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s:

• Western Guilt Feeds Zimbabwe’s Racial Tyranny
• Why Is Bush Bailing Out Mugabe?
• The Zimbabwe Disaster: What Did We Expect?

There’s a whole list of articles here, which we published at the time of Mugabe’s death:

• In Honor Of Comrade Bob Mugabe, A Rhodesian Roundup

We also published (as Trump on South Africa—Brimelow on Rhodesia) Peter Brimelow’s 1979 Human Events article Ian Smith’s Rhodesia Is Worth Remembering, May 26, 1979.

We’ve also covered South Africa for years, but the latest crises—what Musk was calling out, above—are below:

• In South Africa, Zuma Beached for Corruption, Replaced by Labor Leader with $450 Million Net Worth
• Is South Africa Going Down the Zimbabwe Route?
• S. Regime Media Decides “Inequality” Causing South Africa’s Riots—And It Wants To Bring It Here
• In Majority Black / Black-Run South Africa, Power Plant Breakdowns Are Driving Emissions Decline, Ensuring 2025 ”Fighting Global Warming” Goals Are Met
• Rapes Exacerbate Simmering South African Illegal Immigration Crisis
• South African Riots Prove Apartheid Theorists Right: The Black Tribes Can’t Get Along
• S. Giving $8 Billion To South Africa For Green Power—How Much For The Big Guy?

If you’re wondering what this has to do with our usual theme of immigration, remember that demographics is destiny, and the South African experience is about what happened to a white minority when it was persuaded to surrender power.

For more of that, see

• South Africa Today—America Tomorrow? And Why?