Despite a wider freeze on refugees, President Donald Trump called on the US to prioritise resettling Afrikaners, descendants of mostly Dutch early settlers, saying they were “victims of unjust racial discrimination”.
Trump's offer of asylum to white South Africans, specially Afrikaners, has been divisive in the two countries.
The granting of refugee status to white South Africans has been met with a mixture of alarm and ridicule by South African authorities, who said the Trump administration has waded into a domestic political issue it does not understand.
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