‘They’ll be back’: White Afrikaners leave South Africa to be refugees in US
On a chilly Sunday evening in Johannesburg, OR Tambo International Airport was filled with tourists and travellers entering and exiting South Africa’s busiest airport. On one side of the international departures hall, a few dozen people queued – their trollies piled with luggage, travel pillows and children’s blankets – as they waited to board a […]
Do Afrikaners want to take Trump up on his South African refugee offer?
Sam Busà, is another white South African who has applied for the refugee programme. She is the founder of Amerikaners, a platform aimed at providing information to white South Africans interested in the US resettlement offer. While Ms Busà, who is of English, not Afrikaner, descent, and her three sons have submitted their applications, they […]
Why do we mock Amerikaners?
Do we really have to mock people who use an opportunity to leave their country of birth when invited to settle elsewhere? It’s a big, potentially traumatic step for any family. Compassion would not be out of place. So what if South Africans who have left for the US do not fit the United Nations (UN) definition […]
The Great Trek
ACCORDING to the founder of the Amerikaners website, Sam Busa, a vrag Afrikaners are set to follow the 54 “refugees” who left South Africa for the US on Sunday. US president Donald Trump repeatedly said that this group was fleeing racial persecution and would welcome them into the US with open arms. And Busa, who founded the Amerikaners […]
Political climate blamed as first group of white Afrikaners granted US refugee status arrives in US
The first group of white Afrikaners granted refugee status by the United States government has departed South Africa (SA), arriving in Washington this morning following their overnight flight from OR Tambo International Airport. Sam Busa, Founder of the grassroots organisation Amerikaners, has defended the reasons behind their relocation, arguing that the current political climate has […]
The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum
Thousands of South Africans are hoping to move to the US to escape crime – and what they say is discrimination against white people. Kyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers […]
U.S. eyes persecution claims as white South Africans seek resettlement
Mark, who is in his 50s and worked in the food industry abroad for decades, said he had told U.S. officials that Black empowerment laws had left him unemployable. The laws are intended by the government to correct past exclusion of Black South Africans from the economy under apartheid. It was not immediately possible to […]
US focuses on persecution claims as white South Africans seek resettlement
Accounts from applicants who have been interviewed, the number of people approved so far and the request to the IOM have not previously been reported. Two U.S. refugee officers travelled to Pretoria to conduct interviews, said two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, adding that some applicants who said Black South Africans had persecuted them […]
US focuses on persecution claims as white South Africans seek resettlement
US officials have interviewed white South Africans seeking refugee status about their troubles with land disputes, crime and perceived racism, while refugees from other countries are being deported or barred from the United States. Some of the South African applicants have taken part in a first round of interviews in Pretoria, three of them told […]
US focuses on persecution claims as white South Africans seek resettlement
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a February 7 executive order that called for the U.S. to resettle Afrikaner refugees. It said Afrikaners, who are descendants of mostly Dutch early settlers, were “victims of unjust racial discrimination”. The order came after Trump had suspended all U.S. refugee admissions, citing security and cost concerns. Thousands of Afghans, Congolese […]