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President Cyril Ramaphosa called a group of 59 white South Africans who moved to the United States to reset “cowards” and said: “You will be back soon”.
The Africans group came to the United States on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them the refugee status and said they suspended racist discrimination.
But Ramaphosa said that those who wanted to go were not satisfied with the efforts to tackle the inequalities of Apartheid past and to describe their move to a “sad moment for them”.
“As a South African, we are resilient. We do not run away from our problems. We have to stay here and solve our problems. If you run away, you are a coward, and that’s a real cowardly plot,” he added.
Trump and his close ally Elon Mousk, born in South Africa, said that there is a “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa – an assertion that was widely discredited.
The United States has also accused the South African government of confiscating the land of white farmers without paying compensation.
More than 30 years after the end of the decades of the rule of the white minority of South Africa, black farmers only have a small fraction of the country’s best arable land, although the majority are still in white hands, which leads to anger over the slow pace of change.
President Ramaphosa A signed in January Controversial law that enables the government to privately owned privately owned Without compensation under certain circumstances if it is classified as “fair and in the public interest”.
But the government says that no country has yet been confiscated according to the law.
Trump offered to colonize the white Africans, descendants mainly Dutch settlers, and said they were in South Africa before a “terrible situation”.
Ramaphosa spoke on Monday at an agricultural exhibition in the province of Free State to the USA because they were not “pronounced” on efforts to overcome the challenges of the country.
“If you look at all national groups in our country, black and white, you stayed in this country because it is our country and we don’t have to run away from our problems. We have to stay here and solve our problems,” said Ramaphosa.
“I can bet that they will be back soon because there is no country like South Africa,” he added.
His “coward” remark annoyed some social media users who condemned it as an insult to damaged white South Africans.
The African group was welcomed by top US officials who claimed that they had been “under a shadow of violence and terror” in South Africa.
“Welcome to the country of the free,” said deputy foreign minister Chris Landau when he received the South African who landed at Dulles Airport near Washington DC on Monday.
Some held small children and waved small American flags in the arrival area with red, white and blue balloons on the walls.
On Monday, President Ramaphosa said a CEO forum in Africa in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, that he recently announced Trump on a phone call that the US assessment of the situation was “not”.
“We are the only country on the continent on which the colonizers stayed, and we never drove them out of our country,” he added and rejected claims that Africans pursued.
Ramaphosa said dozens of white South Africans who arrived in the United States on Monday, “does not fit” for refugees.
After US message in South AfricaIn order to be justified as justified for the resettlement scheme of refugees, someone must be:
- South African nationality
- Africans or a racial minority
- Able to cite an incident of past persecution or fear of persecution in the future.
The South African leader said he would soon hit his US counterpart with regard to the problem.
Trump has threatened to boycott the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa, unless the “situation is supervised”.