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South Africa: South Africans Seeking Resettlement in U.S. Are Not Refugees - Ramaphosa
SAnews.gov.za, 12 May 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa has refuted the classification of a group of South Africans as refugees, who are seeking resettlement in the United States of America. Read more »
White South Africans Moving to U.S. 'Not Refugees' - Ramaphosa
"Those people who have fled are not being persecuted. They are not being hounded. They are not being treated badly. They are leaving ostensibly because they don't want to embrace the changes that are taking place in our country, in accordance with our Constitution," President Cyril Ramaphosa said in answer to a journalist's question during the presidential panel at the African CEO Forum 2025 in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
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The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status under a program launched by former U.S. President Donald Trump left Johannesburg aboard a U.S.-funded charter flight carrying 49 passengers.
Afrikaners, a white minority descended mainly from Dutch, German, and French settlers, were central to the apartheid regime but remain
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to stop all aid to South Africa while criticizing the country's land expropriation policies. According to Trump, the controversial measure has enabled South Africa to confiscate land "unfairly" and to treat certain classes "very badly''.
This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa
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Civil society organizations are outraged by U.S. President Donald Trump's "dangerous lies and threats". In a statement, they wrote that the idea that South Africa is "confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly" is demonstrably untrue and would be absurd if "this lie were not now
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South African analysts and politicians respond to the expulsion of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool from the U.S. for saying Donald Trump is pursuing a white supremacist agenda locally and abroad.
Besides diplomatic rights and responsibilities, it also raises the question about to whom protocol applies in relation to global power balances, writes Joel Netshitenzhe, executive director of the Mapungubwe
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