Ramaphosa challenges US refugee claims: Are Afrikaners really persecuted?

Ramaphosa criticises Afrikaners who fled to the US

President says the fringe group is anti-change and anti-transformation

Ramaphosa calls Afrikaans ‘refugee’ trek to US a ‘cowardly act’ at agricultural show

President Ramaphosa let loose about the Afrikaans ‘refugees’ to the US during unscripted remarks while visiting SA’s premier showcase for commercial farmers.

Afrikaners leaving SA for US aren't refugees

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Afrikaners who left South Africa for the United States (US) do not fit the description of a “refugee”. The first batch of White Afrikaners left Johannesburg on a charter flight on Sunday, 11 May, and landed in the US on Monday, 12 May. Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump boldly claimed that he cut aid to SA because the government is “doing terrible things to minority groups” and confiscating land. This…

Ramaphosa tells CEO forum white people who fled to US are not being ‘hounded’ – The Mail & Guardian

White South Africans who have fled the country are a “fringe group” that have not been persecuted as claimed, but are opposed to the transformation process which is in line with the Constitution, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday. Ramaphosa was responding to a question at the Africa CEO forum in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire about Afrikaners who have taken up United States President Donald Trump’s offer to accept them as refugees because of th…

South Africans Seeking Resettlement in Usa Are Not Refugees - President Ramaphosa

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has refuted the classification of a group of South Africans as refugees, who are seeking resettlement in the United States of America.

Even White Afrikaners Think Trump’s “Refugee” Plan Is Dumb

Donald Trump is paving the way for white South African “refugees” to come to the United States, but they’re not all that interested in taking him up on his offer, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The U.S. president falsely claimed Monday that Afrikaners, the white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are facing a “genocide” in their home country. So then why don’t they actually want to leave?Maritz Grobler, a tenth-ge…