Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994 following decades of activism that led to the election of Nelson Mandela in its first free presidential election.

Today, the Trump administration has fast-tracked the resettlement of Afrikaners after indefinitely suspending other U.S. refugee programs.

59 white South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on a chartered flight in May of this year. Nine more Afrikaners, including families, arrived late last week, said Jaco Kleynhans, head of international liaison at the Solidarity Movement, a group representing members of South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.

Under apartheid, some 70 percent of the population was squeezed into 13 percent of the country’s most unproductive land.

What will happen in the US and what do we do about it? 340 million people want to know.

And what will happen in South Africa and how can we help undo systemic inequality? 64 million people want to know.

Music: "A Piece of Ground" by the magnificant Miriam Makeba from the 1966 album "The Magnificent Miriam Makeba"

Sources and more context: https://tinylittlecosmos.co/cosmic-weather/an-update-on-the-movement-for-white-slaveowners-in-the-us