The United States allocated nearly $440 million in assistance to South Africa in 2023, the most recent U.S. government data shows.
The White House said Washington will also formulate a plan to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees.
South Africa’s foreign ministry said: “It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the U.S. for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the U.S. from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.”
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who is close to Trump, has said white South Africans have been the victims of “racist ownership laws.”
Ramaphosa also has said South Africa “will not be bullied.” Washington also has complained about the case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice, where it accused Israel of genocide over its military offensive in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis. Israel denies the allegations, saying it acted in self-defense following the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian Hamas militants.
South Africa’s British imperial masters gave most farmland to whites. In 1950, the Afrikaner National Party passed a law taking 85% of territory for themselves and kicking 3.5 million Black people off their ancestral homelands.
AFRIKANERS ‘ARE GOING NOWHERE’
“We did not and will not ask for sanctions against South Africa or that funds for vulnerable people be cut off by the U.S. Government,“ said Flip Buys, Chairperson of the Solidarity Movement of which AfriForum is a part.
Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, said if Afrikaners became refugees in the U.S., their cultural identity would be lost, a risk they would not take.
“We are indigenous to this country and we are going nowhere,“ he said. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland in Washington. Additional reporting by Nqobile Dludla in Johannesburg.
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