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Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own most of the country's farmland.
"If you haven't got any problems here, why would you want to go," said Neville van der Merwe, a 78-year-old pensioner in Bothasig near Cape Town.
"There hasn't been any really bad taking over our land, the people are carrying on like normal and you know, what are you going to do over there?"
The group, which lobbied Trump's previous administration on their cause, said it was not taking up the offer.
"Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to risk potentially sacrificing their descendants' cultural identity as Afrikaners. The price for that is simply too high," AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said on Saturday.
Separately, the Solidarity Movement - which includes AfriForum and Solidarity trade union and said it represents about 600,000 Afrikaner families and 2 million individuals - expressed commitment to South Africa.
"We may disagree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in any community, there are individuals who wish to emigrate, but repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us," the Movement said.
Representatives of Orania, an Afrikaner-only enclave in the heart of the country, also rejected Trump's offer.
"Afrikaners do not want to be refugees. We love and are committed to our homeland," Orania said.
South Africa's land policies since the end of apartheid have never involved forced seizure of white-owned land.
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"If you haven't got any problems here, why would you want to go," said Neville van der Merwe, a 78-year-old pensioner in Bothasig near Cape Town.
"There hasn't been any really bad taking over our land, the people are carrying on like normal and you know, what are you going to do over there?"
The group, which lobbied Trump's previous administration on their cause, said it was not taking up the offer.
"Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to risk potentially sacrificing their descendants' cultural identity as Afrikaners. The price for that is simply too high," AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said on Saturday.
Separately, the Solidarity Movement - which includes AfriForum and Solidarity trade union and said it represents about 600,000 Afrikaner families and 2 million individuals - expressed commitment to South Africa.
"We may disagree with the ANC, but we love our country. As in any community, there are individuals who wish to emigrate, but repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us," the Movement said.
Representatives of Orania, an Afrikaner-only enclave in the heart of the country, also rejected Trump's offer.
"Afrikaners do not want to be refugees. We love and are committed to our homeland," Orania said.
South Africa's land policies since the end of apartheid have never involved forced seizure of white-owned land.
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