Dozens Of White South Africans Granted Refugee Status By Trump Off To America

Source: Africa Publicity

At least 49 white South Africans or Afrikaners granted refugee status by President Donald Trump have departed South Africa, heading for the United States.

A U.S.-funded charter plane transporting the Afrikaners left Johannesburg on Sunday, May 11, 2025.

Those who departed South Africa had claimed that they have been victims of discrimination in their home country and are being welcomed to the US as refugees by the Trump administration. They claimed they have been denied jobs and have been targeted by violence because of their race.

As America welcomes the Afrikaners, President Trump has paused nearly all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from countries like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa.

The refugee process often takes years. But only three months have passed from the time Mr. Trump signed an executive order establishing refugee status for Afrikaners to the first cohort making its way to America.

Families lining up to check in for the flight on Sunday evening at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg avoided answering questions from reporters, saying that the U.S. Embassy instructed them not to speak with the news media. Parents, with children in tow, pushed trolleys piled high with luggage, and spoke quietly among themselves.

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