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Nonilex<p>But for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> farmers who remain in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> &amp; aspire to keep making a living from the land, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> due to come into effect on Aug 1 are an assault on those ambitions.</p><p>"It doesn't make sense to us to welcome South African farmers in America &amp; then the rest that stays behind...to punish them," said Krisjan Mouton, a 6th-generation farmer in Western Cape province's citrus heartland.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerfomativePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerfomativePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/stunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stunt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Trump's threatened 30% <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally &amp; controversially championed: white farmers.<br>Citing false claims that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> South Africans are being persecuted, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has cut aid to the country, publicly berated its president in the Oval Office &amp; invited <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> - descendants of early European settlers - to come to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> as *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a>*.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerfomativePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerfomativePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/stunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stunt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-tariffs-south-africa-set-hit-white-farmers-trump-has-embraced-2025-07-09/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/africa/us-ta</span><span class="invisible">riffs-south-africa-set-hit-white-farmers-trump-has-embraced-2025-07-09/</span></a></p>