‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US

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Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowingWhen Donald Trump announced in February 2025 that the US would accept Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees, many white South Africans who believed that they were victims of racism in their country thought that their prayers had been answered.However, in the past few months, dozens of applicants to the refugee programme have been rejected, with many left dismayed and confused as to why