Tensions between the Trump administration and the corrupt South African government escalated further this week as South Africa raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg, detaining and deporting seven staffers and doxxing the personal information of U.S. embassy personnel. Conservative firebrand Brent Bozell was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to Pretoria, while Afrikaner civil rights organization Afriforum charged the South African State Security Agency is paying journalists to discredit Afrikaner organization. One of the leaders of this smear campaign with ties to the South African State Security Agency is apparently now deployed to Washington, DC.
South African authorities raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg Tuesday, arresting seven Kenyans and giving them deportation orders.
The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) claimed the deportation by the Department of Home Affairs “was conducted in strict accordance with South African immigration law” and that the U.S. staffers “were engaged in work without the necessary work permits.”
South African immigration services are notoriously corrupt and often require extensive bribes to process work permits.
The U.S. staffers worked for a Kenya-based company, RSC Africa, which is operated by U.S. faith-based Church World Service in cooperation with the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
The U.S. State Department condemned “in the strongest terms the South African government’s recent detention of U.S. officials performing their duties to provide humanitarian support to Afrikaners”.
The Trump administration has engaged in a diplomatic war of words with the far-left South African government since February 7, announcing a Refugee Resettlement Program for “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,” as President Trump announced in an Executive Order.
Approx. 70,000 South Africans have registered interest and around 8,000 have submitted applications or inquiries to the US Embassy or program partners. Approx. 400 white South Africans have been resettled in the USA in 2025.
The State Department also accused the South African government of doxxing personal passport information of U.S. officials after the raid, calling “the public release of our U.S. officials’ passport information” an “unacceptable form of harassment” and “an attempt to intimidate U.S. government personnel in South Africa on official business.”
“The United States will not tolerate such behavior toward its government’s officials – or toward any of its citizens – who are legally and peacefully operating abroad. The public release of personal identifying information puts the official in harm’s way,” the State Department said Dec. 18:
“Failure by the South African Government to hold those responsible accountable will result in severe consequences. We call on the Government of South Africa to take immediate action to bring this situation under control and hold those responsible accountable.”
The South African Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation called the allegation “unsubstantiated,” stating it “categorically rejects any suggestion of state involvement in such actions.”
On Friday, the U.S. Senate approved Leo Brent Bozell as the new American ambassador to South Africa, who was nominated by President Trump in March.
Bozell is the founder of the renowned Media Research Center, the grandson of conservative stalwart William F. Buckley, and an early critic of ANC terrorism as far back as the Reagan adminstration. His son Leo Brent Bozell IV peacefully and patriotically participated in the Stop the Steal rally January 6, 2021, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison by a biased Washington jury, and was pardoned by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025.
Afrikaner civil rights organization Afriforum has charged it has evidence that South African media are being paid by the State Security Agency (SSA) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) “to discredit AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement and to polish the image of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government.”
“The fact that the same lies regarding AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement are being spread simultaneously by different journalists, academics and commentators raises serious suspicions that the attacks on AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement are a coordinated effort funded by the state,” stated AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel.
Kriel claimed a “well-known former journalist” approached AfriForum with reliable information that two well-known South African journalists are on the payroll of the State Security Agency, which was modeled on the infamous East Serman State Security Agency (“Stasi”).
Kriel also pointed out that that SSA-related official Karen Burger helped draft a statement by 44 left-wing Afrikaners, including journalists, academics and commentators attacking AfriForum and Solidarity, called the “Not in Our Name” statement.
The statement entitled “Not in Our Name: Afrikaners Respond to the Misuse of Their Story in US Politics” published Oct. 25 explicitly targets MAGA and the Trump Administration, rejecting a “US narrative that casts Afrikaners as victims of racial persecution in post-apartheid South Africa”, which it calls a “framing, now being used to support the far-right “Great Replacement” theory in the United States,” which it terms “misleading” and “dangerous.”
“We are not pawns in America’s culture wars”, the 44 Afrikaans-speaking South Africans bristled, none of whom are active in the Afrikaner civil rights movement. The seemed to have no problem weaponizing “America’s culture wars” to make their own point, however.
ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu “welcomes and salutes the courageous stance” by the signatories and praised their “clear rejection of attempts to distort South Africa’s history and weaponise it to advance far-right agendas abroad,” meaning Washington.
Now it turns out the letter was drafted by an agent of the Souith African government with ties to the secret police apparatus.
“The letter, initially presented as a civic initiative, was revealed through WhatsApp evidence to have been drafted by (Karen) Burger, who also approached several potential signatories. While Burger initially denied involvement, sources close to the matter confirmed her authorship after the correspondence became public,” Casting Out Deceptions blog wrote.
The fact the “Not in Our Name” statement “originates from the state machinery” and that Karen Burger “tried to conceal her involvement” by not signing the statement herself “indicates underhanded action” Kriel added.
Karen Burger is of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), the same Department that justified the doxx of U.S. officials, and is also deployed as a Political Counsellor of the South African Embassy in Washington, as Gateway Pundit can reveal.
Revelation: Two of AfriForum’s reliable sources informed @afriforum that Karen Burger – the driving force behind the open letter by a small group of 44 Afrikaners attacking AfriForum, the Solidarity Movement, and President @realDonaldTrump – was employed by South Africa’s secret… pic.twitter.com/3CIkSbY05Z
— Kallie Kriel (@kalliekriel) November 2, 2025
The fact a South African diplomat in Washington has direct ties to the South African Stasi and to a government-financed anti-US and anti-Afrikaner smear campaign should definitely a few ring alarm bells at the State Department and FBI.
In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared former South African Ambassador to the USA Ebrahim Rasool “persona non grata” after Rasool accused President Donald Trump of leading a so-called “global white supremacist movement.”
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