White South Africans go for us under Trump refugee plan – DW – 05/12/2025

The first white South Africans granted refugee status as part of a program initiated by US President Donald Trump on Sunday from Johannesburg.

A reporter from the Reuters news agency described a snake of white citizens with airport trolleys full of luggage, who waited to stamp their passes before entering the departure lounge.

According to a spokesman for the South African Ministry of Transport, Collen Collen Collen Collen Msibi, the Charter Airplane, which was financed by the USA, held 49 passengers.

“The application for approval [to land] It is the Africans who move to the United States as refugees, “said Msibi.

Africans are a white ethnic minority that mostly descends from Dutch, German and French settlers. The African leaders ruled South Africa during the brutal apartheid regime of the racial regulation, in which the violent suppression of black South Africans often saw.

Africans make up almost 60% of the white population in South Africa.

Msibi added that the aircraft should probably fly to Dulles Airport outside of Washington and then to Texas.

The US broadcaster NPR reported at the beginning of the week that 12 states that had agreed to record the AfricansSome of them have a family in the USA.

Why did Trump offer the white South Africans asylum?

Trump, along with his advisor and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, born in South Africa, was the persecution of white South Africans, according to the black majority of the country.

This despite Africans who have remained one of the privileged races in South Africa since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.

White South Africans make up around 7% of the country's population. But they still have around 78% of the private arable land in South Africa and have about 20 times the fortune of black South Africans.

At the beginning of February, Trump signed an executive order that offers a resettlement of “African refugees”, which are exposed to the government-based discrimination against the government, including racist discriminating property seizure.

This is an indication of an expropriation by South African country, of which Trump believes that they will lead to the confiscation of farms in white.

The new law of South Africa is intended to repeat inequalities that are anchored under the former apartheid system.

How many Africans migrate to the USA?

In March the US State Department announced that 8,000 inquiries from White South Africans received it for resettlement.

Up to 1,000 Africans could be admitted to the United States this year, said the Trump government.

The spokesman for the South African Ministry of Transport, Msibi, said that his department had not received any further application for further resettlement flights.

The quick way to resettlement that Africans is offered is in a strong contrast to the normal refugee process that can take years.

The Trump government has also stopped practically all other refugee registrations as part of Trump as one of his first acts signed as President.

Published by: Zac Crellin