Meet the Suidlanders: South Africa’s white nationalists prepping for a genocide doomsday in the rainbow nation
- Their persecution claims have captured the attention of Donald Trump and international right-wing groups, much to the annoyance of Pretoria
- ‘Our concept is about fleeing a crisis, regrouping and if necessary operating a defence,’ says Suidlanders member Simon Roche
Simon Roche stands over the grave of a Boer farmer in the vast, arid Karoo. Although the burial spot is ready, the farmer is still alive and the grave is instead packed full of emergency supplies for the day South Africa’s black majority turn on the white minority.
Such is the fear of the Suidlanders, a white nationalist group who are prepping for civil war 25 years after Nelson Mandela pledged reconciliation for the “rainbow nation” in the wake of the brutal apartheid system.
Roche and his fellow Suidlanders contend that a “genocide” of white South Africans is already happening and have been courting right-wing organisations all over the world through an intense media campaign.
Their message has even reached the ears of Donald Trump. The US president last year infuriated the South African government by tweeting about “the large scale killing of farmers”.