I think it's a combination of reasons.

Firstly, South Africa has had a steady brain drain since 1948 when the apartheid government took over. I recall in 1958 my own parents wanting to make the move.

Everytime there was an incident - the Soweto riots, the incarceration of Mandela, the death of Steve Biko, the John Vorster murders - more and more educated people left South Africa. It has never stopped.

The people who remain aren't exactly insightful. They are, however, rich. Wealth has never left the white people - the business owners. To my mind, business owners may be savvy on how to make a buck or two, but they lack the long term thinking that is required for understanding systems.

So they don't see the connectivity of mass cause and effect. They cannot see the outcomes of the type of decisions that make for the negative outcomes that Trump policies have.

While vast numbers of Jews have left South Africa, and only a skeleton remains, the Jews who remain behind are religious. So when Trump made Jerusalem the capital, the Jews were 100% behind them. To the Jew, "Next year, Jerusalem," that was one of the most awesome things he could do.

Next, take your business owners. He lowered taxes for the rich, and what businessman doesn't want his taxes reduced? There is this extreme resentment against government corruption and misspending taxes.

The argument id ludicrous. There are billions and billlions of dollars leaving South Africa each month in terms of corporations removing their profits from South Africa, emigrants removing their money from the country, and straight criminal activity. When you compare that sum with the supposed corruption and mispending of government, it there is little comparison. But very few South Africans know about the vast sums of money leaving South Africa. So the white business owners hate the black government. They don't want to pay taxes, they say, because the government is stealing their money.

Then take his entertainment value on The Apprentice, and they, not being the thinking sort. What person who idolizes celebrities has two bits for brains?

I was shocked when I returned to find out how steep the racism is. I would speak to strangers and within 5 minutes (and I am not joking), there would be a negative remark about 'them.' So they identified with Trump and his racism.

Mostly white people in South Africa have the same mindset as American conservatives. I remember a very, very rich South African I met in Los Angeles. Well, actually, he was a friend of a friend in San Diego. My daughter and I got to speaking to him about climate change. He said it was bs. And we tried explaining about plastic. He said, "Well, it's very simple - burn the plastic." Both my daughter and I gasped at him while our jaws hit the ground. He seemed to have no comprehension of the gasses that would be emitted into the air if one burnt plastic. He was 60 something years old. So - ignorance.

I think basically white South Africans very much have the mindset of American conservatives, and that's about it.