South African President Says Afrikaans Fleeing to the United States are “cowards”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said a group of white Afrikaners chose to move to the United States as part of the resettlement plan established by the Trump administration was a “co-husband” and he undoubtedly had no doubt that they would soon return to their homeland.
On Monday, the U.S. government granted them private charter jets to speed up refugee status, including infants and children in Washington, D.C., a squad of about 60 Afrikaans, as they claim they face racial discrimination locally to speed up refugee status.
The Afrikaans were the leader of the segregation system of white minority rule that ended in 1994 and were descendants of the major Dutch and French settlers who arrived in South Africa in the 1700s.
Of the 62 million people in the country, about 2.7 million are Afrikaans, making it the largest white group in South Africa. According to the Associated Press, more than 80% of South Africans are black.
Part of the plan formulated by the Trump administration, there are two children who are part of the first group of Afrikaans from South Africa to relocate to the United States.
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Afrikaans are one of the most economically privileged and culturally integrated minorities in South Africa. Many are successful business leaders, and some are government positions.
Their native language, Afrikaans, is also widely spoken and recognized as an official language, and their lifestyle is reflected in churches and other institutions across the country.
But US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the farmers of South Korea were victims of “genocide” at home, and South African authorities strongly denied that they were “completely wrong.”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's gesture posted the country's address on February 6, 2025 at Cape Town Town Hall.
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Still, the group's immigration application in February was quickly passed in February after Trump announced plans for relocation.
In view of their resettlement, Ramaphosa condemned the group's decision to leave.
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“As South Africans, we are resilient. We won't get rid of the problem. We have to stay here to solve the problem. When you run away, you are a coward, and it's a real coward.”
“We are the only country where colonists live, and we never drove them out of our country,” the BBC reported. He said before the persecution of the Africans who declared persecution were persecuted that South Africans encountered bills on our land, “not in line with our soil,” and that status “not in line with refugees.”
Farm Attack
Trump and his South African-born colleague Elon Musk accused the South African government of enacting anti-white laws and policies, but the president’s claims on persecution and genocide were associated with relatively few violent farm attacks and robbery of white people living in rural communities.
The BBC said in February, South African courts dismissed claims of white genocide in the country, saying they were “clearly imagined” and “not real” because it prevented a wealthy benefactor from donating to the white supremacist group Boerelgioen.
Additionally, on March 5, a South African Police Department press release said that “only one farmer murder was reflected in its latest data.”
The statement comes after a review of the initial data after claims by Ariforum, an advocacy group for farm attack victims in South Africa.
South African police said its agencies “continue to address crimes that affect all communities, including communities in rural and agricultural areas, the seriousness they deserve.”
Ramaphosa said those leaving South Africa were unhappy with their efforts to address past inequality in apartheid, marking the move as a “moment of sadness for them”, according to the BBC.
Meanwhile, Trump's decision to grant them U.S. citizenship has confused refugee advocacy groups because of why white South Africans are prioritized, according to the Associated Press.
The president’s welcome to them is that some refugees who belong to the racial minority of the United States face threats to their legal status in the country.
In March, his government expelled a group of Venezuelans, mostly without criminal records, from government-approved flights in El Salvador's highest security prison, and later ignored the Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a person who was wrongly expelled from Salvadoran who died in Maryland.
Trump also detained well-known foreign students whose administration claims they attended pro-Palestinian rallies on U.S. college campuses as part of an effort to curb rising anti-Semitism rates, most notably Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who is currently in custody at a Detention Center in Louisiana.
Khalil is a green card holder and has been married to a U.S. citizen. The couple has a son who was born in Harrier and was detained.
– Documents with the Associated Press
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