US gets it wrong — Afrikaners don’t qualify as refugees, says cabinet

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Cape Town – Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says Cabinet does not consider the 49 Afrikaners who emigrated to the US as refugees.

Speaking during a media briefing in Tshwane on Thursday, she emphasied that these white Afrikaners do not qualify for refugee status.

The minister reaffirmed the government’s position that there is no genocide against white people in South Africa.

“The decision by United States to confer refugee status to a group of Afrikaner South Africans is misinformed, as they do not fit the definition of refugees as set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. 
“Cabinet further reiterated that allegations of discrimination are unfounded and do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law,” Ntshavheni said. 

She also challenged claims of violence against white farmers, questioning the validity of the genocide narrative and what explanations will be given to the US administration regarding the lack of mass African farmer emigration from South Africa.

“There is no violence against farmers and actually must also go into that list and check how many of those people are actually farmers because the argument is that there is genocide against white farmers in South Africa.

“Somebody has to be committed. He has a problem of explaining the genocide and we wonder what they will say to the American administration when they do not meet the thousands and thousands of African farmers to leave South Africa and what they will be saying,” said the minister.

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