I'm an Afrikaner. Trump's resettled South Africans don't represent me.
I'm a South African writer and translator based in Cape Town. I am 42, White and an Afrikaner. As the United States has turned its attention to my country, it has revealed an old, ugly truth: The only thing most Americans know or want to know about South Africa is how it can be turned into fodder for your nation's psychodramas.
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