2 h. ago First group of white South Africans leave for US after Trump offers refugee status

The South African government said it is ‘completely false’ that Afrikaners are being persecuted

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10 h. ago Trump administration offers refugee status to 49 white South Africans

Group, including families and small children, departed for US after Trump order created relocation programA group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland on Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Mbisi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Trump offered them refugee status

A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program

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40 h. ago Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees. Why?

South Africa says there's no persecution

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41 h. ago Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees, but what persecution are they facing?

The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort

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67 h. ago Woman who was disemboweled, raped and nearly decapitated during horrific South African attack features in true crime podcast 30 years after attack

Alison Botha was just 27 when she was subjected to a sickening attack that left her having to hold onto her intestines as her partially-decapitated head 'flopped backwards'.

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68 h. ago First white South Africans to arrive in America despite Trump’s refugee freeze

The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk

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69 h. ago Woman who was disemboweled, raped and nearly decapitated during horrific South African attack writes book about experience

Alison Botha was just 27 when she was subjected to a sickening attack that left her having to hold onto her intestines as her partially-decapitated head 'flopped backwards'.

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69 h. ago US grants asylum to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, reports say

Donald Trump has directed officials to grant refugee status to Afrikaners who he claims suffer discriminationThe US has granted refugee status to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, who could arrive as soon as Monday in Washington DC, where they will be welcomed by government officials, according to media reports.Donald Trump suspended the US refugee settlement programme in January on his first day in office, leaving more than 100,000 people approved for resettlement stranded, having fled war and persecution in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago South African party launches legal challenge against new diversity and equity labor law

South Africa’s second biggest political party has launched a legal challenge against a new labor law aimed at boosting the hiring of Black people and other groups in some industries

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6 d. ago South Africa’s Rabada cleared to play Australia in World Test Championship

Proteas fast bowler has completed one-month drug banRabada is aiming to take 50th Australian Test wicket next monthSouth Africa’s pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada has been cleared to face Australia in the final of the World Test Championship at Lord’s next month. The 29-year-old had been under a provisional suspension since 1 April after testing positive for a recreational drug during a South African T20 match on 21 January.The South African Institute of Drug-free Sport announced on Monday the bowler had accepted responsibility for the offence and served a one-month period of ineligibility, making him free to resume playing. Rabada may be back in action as soon as Tuesday, for Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump administration offers $1,000 to undocumented immigrants to leave US

DHS claims payment will be issued after individuals leave the US and it has been confirmed through their appUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has announced a new program offering a $1,000 payment to people in the US without immigration status as an incentive to return to their home country voluntarily.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined the initiative on Monday, pledging “financial and travel assistance” to undocumented immigrants who agree to leave the country using an app called CBP Home. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago A South African woman is convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country

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9 d. ago The truth about the rival who Andrea Jenkyns mocked for her 'South African accent'

Lincolnshire was at the centre of Reform's political earthquake that has left Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party trembling after Dame Andrea won in every area of the county bar one.

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9 d. ago Reform's Andrea Jenkyns storms out of TV interview as she's grilled on comment about rival's 'South African accent'

New Greater Lincolnshire mayor says ‘I’m not even going to answer your questions’ as she’s grilled about comments she made about her rival’s South African accent

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1 week ago New Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns storms out of Sky interview after she made a jibe at her rival's South African accent and said it shows she is 'not even from the country'

Dame Andrea Jenkyns used her mayoral election victory speech to declare that illegal immigrants should live in tents instead of hotels.

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1 week ago South Africa says its peacekeeping troops are withdrawing from rebel

The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo

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1 week ago South Africa to hold inquiry into whether prosecutions of apartheid

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered an inquiry to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked investigations and prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes

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1 week ago The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

Thousands of South Africans are hoping to move to the US to escape crime –and what they say is discrimination against white peopleKyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers failed to get the kettle and iron working, so were unable to burn anyone. Then the gun trigger jammed when they tried to shoot Kyle in the spine.“They specifically said they were coming back for this farm [that] it was their land,” said the 43-year-old, who did not want to use his full name. “Only afterwards, we found out that the guy that stays on the plot was actually killed the farmhand I don’t know what his name was.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A godsend’: the white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

Thousands of South Africans are hoping to move to the US to escape crime –and what they say is discrimination against white peopleKyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers failed to get the kettle and iron working, so were unable to burn anyone. Then the gun trigger jammed when they tried to shoot Kyle in the spine.“They specifically said they were coming back for this farm [that] it was their land,” said the 43-year-old, who did not want to use his full name. “Only afterwards, we found out that the guy that stays on the plot was actually killed the farmhand I don’t know what his name was.” Continue reading...

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