Dozens of white South Africans flee for the US as refugees months after Trump said Afrikaners faced 'racial discrimination'

The archetypal batch of achromatic South Africans granted exile presumption successful the US aft President Donald Trump deemed them victims of radical favoritism are acceptable to onshore successful Virginia today.

The 49 Afrikaners -  a achromatic number radical successful South Africa - volition beryllium relocated crossed the US aft the White House fast-tracked their applications.

They boarded a formation from Johannesburg yesterday which is owed to interaction down astatine Washington Dulles airdrome aboriginal today. They will participate successful a property league earlier boarding flights to antithetic cities crossed the US.

Collen Msibi, a spokesperson for South Africa's transport ministry, said the 49 refugees would person to beryllium vetted by constabulary to guarantee determination were nary transgression cases oregon outstanding warrants against them earlier being allowed to leave.

In February Trump issued an enforcement order accusing South Africa's authorities of seizing onshore from achromatic farmers without immoderate compensation, an allegation denied by Cape Town.

Top Trump adviser, South African-born Elon Musk, has antecedently said determination was a 'genocide of achromatic people' successful South Africa and accused the authorities of passing 'racist ownership laws'. 

The formation volition beryllium the archetypal successful a 'much larger-scale relocation effort', according to White House lawman main of staff, Stephen Miller.

He added that what was happening to Afrikaners successful South Africa 'fits the textbook explanation of wherefore the exile programme was created', adding: 'This is persecution based connected a protected diagnostic – successful this case, race. This is race-based persecution.'

But the South African authorities has firmly rejected these accusations. 

They bash not suffice for that status, according to us,' Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said astatine a property briefing connected Monday.

'There is nary information astatine each that backs that determination is persecution of achromatic South Africans,' helium added, saying transgression successful South Africa affects everyone irrespective of race.

In a connection connected Friday, South Africa's Foreign Ministry said accusations the authorities discriminated against the country's achromatic number were 'unfounded' and that the US's resettlement strategy was an effort to undermine the country's 'constitutional democracy'. 

There are astir 2.7 cardinal Afrikaners among South Africa’s colonisation of 62 million, which is much than 80 per cent Black.

Whites inactive ain three-quarters of backstage onshore and person astir 20 times the wealthiness of the Black majority, according to planetary world diary the Review of Political Economy.

Less than 10 per cent of achromatic South Africans are retired of work, compared with much than a 3rd of their Black counterparts.

Trump's openness to accepting Afrikaner refugees is successful stark opposition to a wider crackdown connected migrants and asylum seekers from different countries. 

Tension betwixt South Africa and the Trump medication has been growing, however.

In March, South Africa's ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled aft accusing President Trump of utilizing 'white victimhood arsenic a canine whistle', starring to the US accusing Mr Rasool of 'race-baiting'. 

Since his instrumentality to the White House successful January, Trump has chopped each U.S. fiscal assistance to South Africa, citing disapproval of its onshore argumentation and of its genocide lawsuit astatine the International Court of Justice against Washington's ally, Israel.