US EditionSouth Africa’s ANC calls Trump Afrikaner refugee plan ‘madness’
- In February 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order, referred to as 'Mission South Africa,' promising to promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees, who he claimed were escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including property confiscation.
- Trump's decision to offer refugee status to white Afrikaners stemmed from long-held conspiracy theories about their mistreatment in post-apartheid South Africa and accusations that the South African government was confiscating their land, echoing grievances voiced by AfriForum.
- The U.S. State Department began coordinating with Homeland Security to consider Afrikaner eligibility for resettlement, conducting interviews with potential refugees and providing them with security escorts, while the South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA handed over information of 67,042 South Africans expressing interest in the resettlement opportunity.
- The US administration argued that core functions of the refugee program had been terminated and that they lacked the resources to take in more refugees, despite a court order to admit 20,000 people from other countries who had already been granted refugee status before Trump took office.
- The move to prioritize Afrikaner refugees risked upending the American refugee program, drawing criticism from refugee advocates who accused the administration of racial bias and delaying the processing of other refugees, while also prompting the MK Party to open a case of treason against AfriForum and leading to planned engagements between the ANC, AfriForum, and Solidarity to address tensions between the US and South Africa.
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