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What happened to/with the Afrikaners Himself let in a few moths back?Does anyone know? (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Oct 2025 OP
I heard Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 #1
From a South African paper canetoad Oct 2025 #2
Can we call them African Americans? multigraincracker Oct 2025 #3

canetoad

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2. From a South African paper
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 05:54 PM
Oct 2025
It has been three months since a group of Afrikaner refugees, primarily white South Africans of Dutch descent, fled to the United States under a controversial United States refugee resettlement programme.

The programme, established by US President Donald Trump, aimed to provide a haven for Afrikaners who claimed to be facing racial persecution in South Africa.

In May this year, 59 Afrikaners boarded a chartered flight to the US, where they were welcomed by US officials and distributed in different parts of the country where they would be settling. About a month later, a dozen more followed.

While some of the refugees have expressed gratitude for the opportunity to start anew in the US, others have shared stories of struggle and frustration.

Charl Kleinhaus, a 47-year-old man who claimed he owned a farm in Limpopo, said that although life was safe in the US, he had to work like everybody else.

https://thestar.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/2025-08-07-life-as-an-afrikaner-refugee-in-the-us-challenges-and-triumphs/

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