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Perhaps aiming to avoid the media frenzy that accompanied the first group, a second, smaller group of Afrikaner refugees quietly arrived in the United States on Friday, barely causing a blip on social media.
Unfortunately, no private jet for the second batch either, as they departed on a commercial flight from Joburg on Thursday.
They are part of the 8,000 Afrikaners who will be resettled within the next few months, according to Jaco Kleynhans, head of Public Relations for trade union Solidarity.
“It is a smaller group, including children. Several more groups will fly to the USA over the next few weeks. The US Embassy in Pretoria, in collaboration with the State Department in Washington, is currently processing 8,000 applications, and we expect many more Afrikaner refugees to travel to the USA over the next few months.”
“They are settling in states across the USA, but particularly southern states such as Texas, North and South Carolina, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska,” Kleynhans said.
The US embassy in South Africa confirmed that they “were aware that refugees continue to arrive in the United States from South Africa on commercial flights as part of the Afrikaner resettlement programme’s ongoing operations”.
Solidarity said it has helped some people understand the application process better and referred them to the right people at the US embassy. They have also assisted the US government in determining the criteria for Afrikaner refugee status.
“Our primary focus is not refugee status for Afrikaners, but rather to find ways to ensure a free, safe, and prosperous future for Afrikaners in South Africa. We remain 100% convinced that South Africa can and must create a home for all its people.”
He added that at least 20% of Afrikaners have already left the country “because if they stayed, they would have been unemployed”.
Kallie Kriel, AfriForum’s CEO, acknowledged that everyone in the country has challenges, but said Afrikaners felt threatened by the open call for such violence with the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant.
Kriel added that matters were compounded by the government, including the president and courts, which failed to condemn the chant.
The lack of media coverage the second group received seems to indicate that most South Africans have chosen to move on from the whole refugee thing. Ramaphosa and Co. attempted to set the record straight during the meet-and-ambush at the White House, but it seems the US are sticking with the white genocide narrative.
Oh well, we tried.
[Source: IOL]
