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‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US

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What happened

Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowing When Donald Trump announced in February 2025 that the US would accept Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees, many white South Africans who…

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  • Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowing When Donald Trump announced in February 2025 that the US would accept Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees, many white South Africans who…
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:27 UTC.

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