Johannesburg, South Africa – April 2026
Let's stop this misinformation the Main Stream Media spewed out sommer right now.
Riaan Roux on the fake news spreaded by the Main Stream Media:
Here are the key outlets that pushed variations of this claim:
- Reuters: Ran multiple pieces and videos, including "Trump says wh South Africans are persecuted – some are returning [for a] better life" and "South African expats return home, shunning US refuge," framing returnees as tied to or undermining the US refugee programme for wh South Africans/Afrkanrs.
- The Daily Beast: Published "wh South African 'Refugees' Choose to Head Home Instead of Living Under Trump," explicitly labelling returnees as refugees from the US programme who are heading back to South Africa.
- bl Enterprise: Headline: "Trump Claims Undermined As wh South Africans Return Home," directly linking the returns to the refugee programme that brought around 3,500 South Africans to the US.
- Africanews: Reported "Thousands of wh South Africans repatriate as US safety fears grow," tying the movement to the Trump refugee initiative and claims of persecution.
Other outlets and social media aggregators amplified similar angles, often quoting the same 3,500 figure from the US refugee admissions programme that began in May 2025 and citing "Afrkanr refugees" or wh South Africans returning despite Trump's invitation.
The problem? This is flat-out wrong.
Another thing that grinds my teeth, is the fact that these Main Stream Media says the refugee program is exclusively only for wh Afrkanrs, which is not the case. If you go read on the USCIS portal, you must BE PART of the RACIAL MINORITY GROUP, like Indian, Colored and wh - but we know that Kakpraat24 and SABC wants to weaponize this narrative exclusively against the wh Afrkanr of South Africa.
The individuals coming back to South Africa – and the ones now flying out again this month – are not the refugees from the US programme. They are South African workers on standard H-2A and H-2B temporary visas.
H-2A visas are for seasonal agricultural jobs in the US. H-2B visas cover non-agricultural temporary work (think hospitality, landscaping, construction). These programmes have existed for decades. South Africans have participated in them for years, and the workers return home every single year once the season ends. They are not political refugees fleeing alleged persecution – they are temporary guest workers who maintain strong ties to South Africa and come back annually.
I (and many others in South Africa) have personally met these workers. They are ordinary South Africans – farmers' sons, young men and women from rural areas, families who treat the US stint as a yearly contract gig for better pay. Right now, in April 2026, they are doing exactly what they do every year: flying back to the United States for the next season. USCIS data even prioritises "returning workers" for H-2B allocations this fiscal year, confirming the cycle.
There is zero evidence in official USRAP (US Refugee Admissions Program) travel data or South African immigration stats linking the current wave of return flights to the small cohort of Afrkanr refugees accepted under the 2025 programme. The media simply conflated seasonal visa traffic – which is routine, visible at airports like OR Tambo, and well-known to locals – with the politically charged refugee story.
This isn't journalism. It's lazy narrative-fitting. The Trump administration's refugee programme for wh South Africans is a real policy (with its own controversies and numbers), but the people boarding flights home and then back to the US right now are the same H-2A/H-2B crews who have been doing this loop for years. No mass "refugee reversal." No dramatic U-turn undermining US policy. Just normal seasonal migration that happens every April.
Next time a headline screams about "Afrkanr US Refugees Returning to South Africa" check the visa type. It's H-2A or H-2B – not asylum status. The Main Stream Media got this one badly wrong. Again.
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