BBC News, Johannesburg
Ulrich Janse van Vuuren, a 38-year-old Afrikaner, passionately promotes South Africa’s beauty and rejects claims of white persecution, labeling those who left for the US as “opportunists.” Following the arrival of the first group of 59 Afrikaner refugees in the US, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned their departure as a cowardly act, emphasizing that the narrative of widespread persecution is misleading. While acknowledging crime against farmers, Janse van Vuuren insists that such issues affect all South Africans, not just white individuals.