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Afrikaners Seeking US Asylum Leave Behind a Deeply Divided Country

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The head of South Africa’s largest agricultural association said white-owned farms are frequently invaded ‘by local politicians and radical groups.’

JOHANNESBURG—U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow white Afrikaners to seek asylum in the United States from state-sponsored “racial discrimination,” “hateful rhetoric,” and “disproportionate violence” in South Africa has not gone down well in some quarters.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as “cowards,” according to the BBC.

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