The first group of 49 white South Africa was given refugee status by the United States. After leaving Johannesburg on Sunday, he will arrive soon.
President Donald Trump said that the African ethnic minority in this country is a victim of “racism.”
This was dismissed by Ronald La Mo Rola, South Africa. On Monday, he added that “there is no persecution for the white African people,” he added.
The South African Republic said the suspicion of persecution would not meet the critical prices “domestic and international refugee laws.”
The BBC contacted UNHCR UNHCR UN refugee institutions and was not involved in this settlement system and was asked to participate in the screening.
Given the solid position of the Trump administration for refugees, this process did not include the UN refugee organization, and it is noteworthy in a way that the white Africans have tracked and others are not performed.
The United States criticized South Africa’s domestic policies and accused the South African state seized land from white farmers without any compensation.
Trump also emphasized the description of South Africa’s “large -scale murder of farmers.”
Elon Musk, a South African -born elon Musk, said that there was a “white massacre of white” in South Africa and accused the government passed the “racial ownership law.”
The claim of massacre of white people was widely disadvantaged.
According to the South African police, 44 murders were recorded in farms and small farmland in 2024, and eight were killed as farmers.
South Africa does not report on criminal statistics classified by race, but most of the farmers are white, and most others live on farms such as workers.
Afrikaner’s writer MAX DU PREEZ said in the BBC’s NewSDAY radio program, the persecution of the white South African republic is “complete absurdity,” and “nothing.”
He added that South African people were “stunned” by the settlement plan and added that they were more related to the “internal politics” in the United States than South Africa.
Trump’s tension between the United States and South Africa has been tense for a while, plans to potentially reinstall Afrikaners, a group of Dutch ancestors in the United States.
In March, Ebrahim Rasool, Ambassador to South Africa, was expelled after President Ras’s Las Mr. Las’s “lace bait” after Trump accused Trump’s use of “white victims” as a dog whistle.
The United States also criticized South Africa in the ICJ for “aggressive” stance against Israel. Pretoria has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanahu’s massacre government as a mass killing government for people.
Currently, the white South African refugee group is composed of 49, and is expected to land on Washington DC on Monday before continuing to Texas.
According to the 2017 government report, white South African people own only 7.3%of the population, which owns the majority of farmland.
In January, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial law and allowed the government to seize individual land without compensation when it was considered “fair and public interests.”
In South Africa, there was anger at the slow land reform speed for 30 years after racism.
The openness of President Trump, who accepts African refugees, comes when the United States is engaged in a wider crackdown on other countries immigrants and asylum applicants.
Additional report of Johannesburg, Nomia IQBAL & CAI Pigliucci, DC’s Khanyisile NGCOBO
