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14-05-2025
DULLES: A group of about 50 White South Africans landed at Dulles International Airport on Monday as refugees, coming to the United States under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.
President Donald Trump has said the Afrikaners, a minority group descended from Dutch settlers in South Africa are facing racial discrimination due to a land redistribution law in that country that seeks to correct an imbalance in property ownership stemming from four decades of apartheid rule. No land seizures have been carried out under that law but Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa, an allegation government officials there say lacks any evidence.
“Farmers are being killed,” the president said at a news conference. “They happen to be White. Whether they’re White or Black, makes no difference to me but White farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”
South African officials have called the effort to cast the Afrikaner families as refugees a “politically motivated” ploy “designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy.”
The South African land redistribution law, which was signed in January, allows for property to be taken without compensation in some situations, subject to review by a judge. (Int’l News Desk)
