First group of white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants refugee status
by Rachel Savage in Johannesburg, David Smith in Wash from World news | The Guardian on (#6X7TH)
Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a genocide'
The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by Donald Trump's administration has arrived in the US, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a genocide".
The Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists, were met at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC by US deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and deputy secretary of homeland security, Troy Edgar, with many given US flags to wave.
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