South African businessman Charl Kleinhaus has confessed to leaving a lifetime of privilege behind to develop into an Afrikaner “refugee” now dwelling within the US.
This week, 49 white South Africans arrived in America underneath President Donald Trump’s resettlement programme.
Kleinhaus – who owns a granite mining firm in Limpopo – has additionally made headlines over his previous antiSemitic social media posts.
AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEE’: ‘I DIDN’T COME HERE FOR FUN’
Chatting with the BBC, Charl Kleinhaus spoke about leaving his life in South Africa.
He additionally responded to allegations by the general public that Afrikaner “refugees” had been “opportunistic”.
He mentioned: “I needed to depart a five-bedroom home which I’ll now lose, my automotive, my canine, and my mom behind. I didnt come right here for enjoyable. However my kids are secure”.
He added, “In case you are white, you’re fallacious in South Africa. I had nothing to do with Apartheid – nothing, nothing, nothing!
“Folks should assume we’re making the most of this. We’re coming right here to make a contribution to the nation”.
Throughout the interview, Kleinhaus claimed that as an Afrikaner businessman, he had acquired “threatening” messages from his group in Limpopo. He additionally claimed that his gear had been destroyed and that police couldn’t help him.
ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS
Charl Kleinhaus additionally touched on the backlash that has made headlines for making antiSemitic feedback on social media.
In 2023, the Afrikaner “refugee” posted on X (previously Twitter): “Jews are untrustworthy and a harmful group.”
Kleinhaus claimed that he had “copied and pasted” the feedback from one other X account.
He added that on the time he was additionally in hospital “on morphine”.
BACKLASH FOR ‘LEAVING MOM BEHIND’
On the X platform, Charl Kleinhaus’s interview brought on a stir, given the backlash to Afrikaner “refugees” arriving within the US.
@igorm365: “If dwelling in a five-bedroom home is actual persecution, what resides in a shack then?”
@Cthulhucachoo: “What sort of man leaves his mom behind in an lively genocide zone? She gave beginning to you, and that is the way you repay her?”
@Mamhayise123: “Bro doesn’t afford bond anymore. He determined to run”.
@CrutiFi: “Why is Elon Musk leaving his father in a rustic with a white genocide?”
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