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00:00I'm moving to the USA, bro.
00:01OK, why?
00:02Because I just got refugee status, son.
00:04OK, don't talk about it.
00:05South African comedian Boer Bosch
00:06sending up white privilege.
00:08Part of a wave of spoof videos on social media
00:11following US President Donald Trump's allegations
00:14that South Africa mistreats its white minority.
00:18What Daddy Trump says goes.
00:20Isn't that racist?
00:21I don't know, dude.
00:21Ask Elon.
00:22He offered refugee status to Afrikaners,
00:25the descendants of early European settlers,
00:28stating they were victims of unjust racial discrimination.
00:32Trump was attacking a land expropriation bill
00:35signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa,
00:37which is aimed at addressing racial disparities
00:40in land ownership.
00:41Another day.
00:42Comedian Leah Jazz posted this Instagram video
00:45titled, A Day in the Life of an Oppressed White South African.
00:48I then need to wash, so I have a dip in our pool,
00:50which is used for bathing and drinking
00:52as we have no running water.
00:53Then I sit down to apply for a job I'm not qualified for
00:56and cry when I don't get it.
00:57South African-born billionaire Elon Musk,
01:00now a key adviser to Trump,
01:01has amplified the president's attacks on South Africa.
01:04He wrote in a post on his social media platform X last week
01:08that the country has openly racist ownership laws.
01:12Trump's criticism has exacerbated stark divisions
01:15in South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid,
01:18partly because of yawning inequality
01:20between racial groups.
01:22Underscoring those divisions,
01:23the mostly white-led Democratic Alliance,
01:26the main coalition partner in Ramaphosa's unity government,
01:29said on Monday it had filed a legal challenge to the land law.
01:33The populist MK party, meanwhile,
01:35has filed a criminal complaint against AfriForum,
01:38which champions the white Afrikaner minority,
01:41accusing it of spreading misinformation
01:43to influence Trump.
01:44AfriForum has lobbied against the law
01:46in US media and political circles.
01:49He can decide how he puts pressure on South Africa.
01:52Portraying it as part of a wider onslaught
01:54on white Afrikaners.
01:55To put pressure particularly on the politician.