Olufunke Aladejare
The President of United States of America, Donald Trump has said Afrikaners, the descendants of mainly Dutch settlers, who moved to the US in February were welcomed as refugees in order to escape the alleged discrimination in South Africa.
Dozens of white South Africans have arrived in the US after the Trump administration granted them refugee status in the country, having deemed them victims of racial discrimination.
The first 59 Afrikaners were greeted by Christopher Landau, the US deputy secretary of state, at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Monday.
Mr Trump also denied favouring Afrikaners because they are white, saying that their race “makes no difference to me”.
However, South Africa said there is no evidence of persecution of Afrikaners or a “white genocide”, as Mr Musk called it, taking place in the country.
NEWSTODAYNG gathered that many of the South Africans who arrived in the US were farming families who could have the land they worked for generations expropriated.
Mr Trump’s order to resettle Afrikaners came after South Africa introduced a land law that enables the state to expropriate land in the public interest.
The policy caused concern among some white South Africans, despite no land being seized.
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