MBABANE:United States President Donald Trump’s offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as right-wing white lobby groups want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule on home soil,Aljazeera reported on Sunday.
“Trump on Friday signed an executive order to cut US aid to South Africa, citing an expropriation act that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month aiming to redress land inequalities that stem from South Africa’s history of white supremacy.Trump’s order provided for resettlement in the US of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” as refugees.Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own the majority of the country’s farmland”, reads the Aljazeera report.
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own the majority of the country's farmland [Thando Hlophe/Reuters]