“Despite the United State’s instrumental role in facilitating the ANC takeover in South Africa, the American government has not been as gracious in opening our doors to White South Africans who suffer robbery, rape, and murder, in part, because of American policy towards the White regime in South Africa. When White South Africans petition for asylum or seek to immigrate legally, the Immigration and Naturalization Service filled with large numbers of Black affirmative action employees thwart their attempts at every corner.” — NorthlandTrekker

‘US returned us to hijack hell’

By Lauren Thys, Beeld

Delmas - “We want the Americans to know to what kind of a country they sent us back to.”

Wentzel Herbst said: “I’ve had to go through another hijacking and, this time, my children were with me.”

Herbst had been in the car with his brother-in-law, Jimmy Watson, when Watson was killed during a hijacking just more than a week ago.

Wentzel, his wife, Carol, and their children, Deiran, six, and Tegan, three - who were born in the United States - were visiting the Watsons in Delmas.

Three years ago, the family was refused asylum in the US, after being there for six years and had to return to South Africa.

They had applied for asylum in the US because of the crime situation in South Africa.

Just before they left for the US, Wentzel had been shot in the back during a hijacking.

Wentzel and the children went to buy food for the family who had gathered in Delmas after they had heard that Watson’s daughter, Sharon Knoetze, had died in a car accident seven hours earlier.

Carol said: “My children are traumatised. They got such a fright when they saw the violence of the hijacking and when their father yanked them out of the car so quickly.

Wentzel said: “When we said we feared for our safety in South Africa, the Americans thought we were joking and said that South Africa was a perfectly safe country to go back to.” (more…)