US EditionS.Africa calls US welcome for white Afrikaners 'apartheid 2.0'
The US granted refugee status to Afrikaners citing alleged persecution, while South Africa denies genocide claims and criticizes the move as racial preferential treatment amid ongoing diplomatic tensions.
- US President Donald Trump's administration offered refugee status to minority white Afrikaners from South Africa in May, claiming they faced discrimination and "genocide".
- South Africa's Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola called this "preferential treatment" for Afrikaners "apartheid 2.0" and said there was no duty to assist the US refugee program.
- Lamola cited police statistics showing no pattern of racially motivated killings of white farmers to counter claims used to justify the refugee offer.
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Since May, about 50 Afrikaners, the white minority in South Africa, have been welcomed by Washington as refugees, on the basis of accusations of "genocide" of white farmers. Between selective sorting and political sorting, the Trump administration cultivates a migration policy with variable geometry.
South Africa likens US's refugee status for white Afrikaners to 'apartheid 2.0'
On Wednesday, South Africa's foreign minister denounced the Donald Trump administration's policy of offering refugee status to members of the white Afrikaner minority, saying it resembled the country's own past of racial segregation.
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