US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate
Exclusive: Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US The US government could spend hundreds…
The Guardian reports: Exclusive: Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US The US government could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media campaign in South Africa to figure out why more white Afrikaners are not applying to become refugees to the US, as Donald Trump had hoped.
This politics story centres on the United States. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include South African Afrikaners, Afrikaners and US The US.
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