MORE AFRIKANERS TREK

NOG ‘n smalll batch of Afrikaners quietly left South Africa on Friday, as part of  US President Donald Trump’s offer to resettle them in America and claims of a “White Genocide”.

According to Jaco Kleynhans, head of Public Relations for trade union Solidarity, the group which includes families, are part of 8 000 applicants who will be resettled within the next few months.

They follow the first 49 white South African Afrikaners, who arrived last month, which has sparked backlash in Mzansi and in the US.

Kleynhans said the second group departed on a commercial flight on Thursday that landed in Atlanta in the US on Friday. 

He explains: “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 DC, 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.”

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.

However, Kleynhans added that it is not Solidarity’s plan to move mense out of SA, explaining that “at least 20 percent of Afrikaners have already left the country “because if they stayed, they would’ve been unemployed”.

He says: “Our primary focus is to find ways to ensure a free, safe, and prosperous future for Afrikaners in SA. We remain 100 percent convinced that SA can and must create a home for all its people.”

Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, said they don’t know of more Afrikaners entering the US.