Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, has called on U.S. President Donald Trump to deport the Afrikaners he accepted as refugees”If Trump is honest, he should deport those people because they don’t qualify to be refugees in the United States of America,” Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela told Newsweek. “Once they land here in South Africa, we must arrest them.”In May, Trump alleged that a genocide against white Afrikaner people is taking place in South Africa and has accepted more than 60 into the United States as refugees, despite Trump’s immigration crackdown that has seen other asylum seekers, from Africa and elsewhere, turned away.The South African government has repeatedly and vehemently denied that a white genocide is taking place, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa traveling to the White House for a meeting on May 21 to do so.The first group of 59 people arrived on a charter flight at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on May 13, welcomed by senior officials from the Trump administration.Smaller groups have followed on commercial flights, according to Amerikaners, a group that supports “disenfranchised South Africans seeking a new future in the United States.””The resettlement program is being scaled and the numbers will increase radically within the next three months,” a spokesperson told Newsweek.Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela opened a criminal case against the group on June 12, accusing them of “treason, spreading misinformation and incitement against South Africa,” according to an affidavit viewed by Newsweek.”I believe they should face prison,” he said. “White genocide is a very serious allegation and in South Africa we know that there is no white genocide. It’s a country where there is crime, like every other country.”White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller previously said: “What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created. This is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty, and historically, it has been used that way.”Mandela, 31, has grown increasingly critical of his great-grandfather’s party, the African National Congress (ANC), over the years calling it a “barrier to true freedom.”Nelson Mandela was the first democratic president of South Africa, elected in 1994 after leading the struggle against apartheid—a white-minority-rule regime that enforced a state-sanctioned system of white supremacist racial segregation with violent laws, police brutality, mass disenfranchisement and forced removals.He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for being a huge part of making the transition from apartheid into democracy peaceful, at a time when many in South Africa feared civil war. He has long been considered an international hero.Earlier this year, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela joined the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a growing opposition party headed by Julius Malema—the man seen leading chants of “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” in the videos Trump played during his White House chat with Ramaphosa.Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela also called for the Afrikaans civil rights organizations AfriForum and Solidarity to face criminal charges, for “actively promoting and facilitating the dissemination of this false narrative globally.”The groups told Newsweek “there are no legal grounds for Mr. Mayibuye Mandela’s claims,” with an Afriforum spokesperson saying that “refugees should not be blamed, but rather the ANC leaders in South Africa, whose reckless policies and actions have led some Afrikaners to feel it necessary to flee the country of their birth.”South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation told Newsweek that “citizens suspecting violations of our legal framework are encouraged to lodge their concerns with law enforcement agencies,” adding that the agencies will investigate and determine if any laws have been broken.Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela went on to say that he believes Trump is targeting South Africa because of its stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict. South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide.When Newsweek contacted the White House, spokesperson Anna Kelly said: “President Trump has a humanitarian heart, which is why thousands of from around the world have been granted asylum since the start of his second term. Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration.”The Wider DebateAs evidence of South Africa’s alleged genocide, Trump cited the farm murders of Afrikaners, accused the South African government of not doing enough about them and called for the arrest of Malema.”They’re being killed,” Trump told reporters during the Oval Office meeting, “and we don’t want to see people be killed…it’s a genocide that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.”Members of the South African delegation who were at the meeting argued that farm murders are taking place in a country notorious for violent crime across the board. It has the fourth-highest murder rate for countries that publish crime data (44 per 100,000 in 2022), according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.”The problem in South Africa, it is not necessarily about race, but it’s about crime,” Zingiswa Losi, president of a group of South African trade unions, said at the time.Similarly, the South African Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen said: “We have a real safety problem in South Africa, I don’t think anyone wants to candy-coat that.”On the topic of the chant, Ramaphosa sought to separate himself from Malema, saying Malema’s words were “not government policy,” adding that he is “completely opposed to that.”Trump then asked Ramaphosa why Malema has not been arrested for the chant, a question South African courts have grappling with for more than two decades.The South African Supreme Court made its final ruling on the “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” chant, which was used during protest by the anti-apartheid movement, this year.But the crux of the case was decided in 2022, when the Equality Court of South Africa ruled that the chant does not constitute hate speech, after Malema, who had been taken to court for the chant by AfriForum, argued that the chant was not literal but “directed at the system of oppression.”Judge Edwin Molahlehi found that while the chant “may well be found to be offensive and undermining of the political establishment,” he ruled that AfriForum could not “show that the lyrics in the songs could reasonably be construed to demonstrate a clear intention to harm or incite to harm and propagate hatred.”Newsweek has looked at everything you need to know about the history and legal context of the chant here.Trump has also criticized South Africa’s Expropriation Bill signed into law in January, a tool meant to help South Africa correct the long-standing issue of the unequal distribution of land that took place during apartheid and colonization, that allows for land being seized with “nil compensation” in some cases.”South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” he posted on Truth Social in February.Ramaphosa responded that “South Africa, like the United States of America and other countries, has always had expropriation laws that balance the need for public usage of land and the protection of rights of property owners.”The no-compensation aspect of the bill is supposed to be used only where it is “just and equitable and in the public interest,” the legislation says.”Expropriation may not be exercised unless the expropriating authority has without success attempted to reach an agreement with the owner,” Ramaphosa’s spokesperson said.Who Is Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela?Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela is biologically the great-grandson of Nelson Mandela’s sister, Baliwe Mandela, but, in accordance with Xhosa tradition, because Baliwe Mandela was unmarried, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela took his maternal surname and became part of the Mandela family, with Nelson Mandela becoming his great-grandfather.He lived with his uncle, Nkosi Mandla Mandela, in Mvezo, the same village that Nelson Mandela was born, according to local newspaper DispatchLive.In 2015, when Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela was 21, he participated a traditional Xhosa initiation ceremony to “graduate as a man” with his family name.