Tag: afrikaners
Trump ambushes S African leader with claim of Afrikaners being ‘persecuted’
US President Donald Trump seemed to ambush his South African counterpart at the White House on Wednesday, confronting him with a video that Trump said supported his claim that white farmers were being “persecuted” in the country. The footage, shown during a news conference with Cyril Ramaphosa, purported to show the gravesites of murdered farmers.…
First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.
By Kate Bartlett JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the U.S. on Monday May 12, three sources with knowledge of the matter have told NPR. The sources did not want to be…
The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum
Thousands of South Africans are hoping to move to the US to escape crime – and what they say is discrimination against white people Kyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers…