At least 54 white South Africans have been granted refugee status in the US and will be arriving this month, NPR reported on Thursday.
The news comes almost four months after the US suspended the country’s refugee resettlement programme, leaving 12,000 vulnerable people in limbo who had been conditionally approved for resettlement and had flights booked before 20 January, as well as almost 90,000 others who had been approved for resettlement.
A court order this week directed the government to start processing the 12,000 people who had booked their flights before 20 January. The Afrikaan South Africans, or Afrikaners, are white descendants of largely Dutch people who colonised the country and are expected to arrive on 12 May, NPR reports.
“Make South Africa Great Again”
They’ll make statements like this and then complain about people assuming that they’re racist bigots. Because I’m pretty sure they’re not talking about the '90s when Mandela was still in charge and there was hope and joy in the air in South Africa.
The well run ‘South Africa’ that they long for so much was the South Africa where the previous government only bothered doing their jobs for about 3% of the country before patting themselves on the back for a job well done. And they’re comparing that to a government that isn’t perfect but that also took on a lot more work and responsibility, and hasn’t just drawn lines on a map and labelled huge sections of the country as “homelands” that they don’t need to bother with.
I sincerely hope that when these people are flying over, there’s some big mishap with aviation caused by Musk and they end up at the bottom of the sea.