Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Close to 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest in moving to the US following Washington’s offer to resettle people from the country’s Afrikaner community, a business group has said. The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (Saccusa) said its website received tens of thousands of registrations from those seeking more information. In a February executive order, President Donald Trump said Afrikaners — descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century — could be admitted as refugees as they were ‘victims of unjust racial discrimination.’ Relations between the US and South Africa have become increasingly strained since Trump became president in January. Saccusa said that in a ‘pivotal step,’ it has handed the list of interested individuals to the US embassy in Pretoria. An embassy official confirmed to the BBC that it had received the list.” (03/19/25)