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South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa has explained that a group of 59 Afrikaners who fled the country do not qualify to be refugees.
“We have raised our own concerns because those people who are being enticed to go to the United State do not fit the definition of a refugee. A refugee is someone who has to leave their country out of fear because of political persecution, religious persecution or economic persecution. They don’t fit that bill, they don’t fit that description” He explained.
According to the president, he had a phone conversation with the US president, Donald Trump and explained to him.
“I had a conversation with President Trump on the phone and he asked what is happening down there? And I said president, what you have been told by those people who are opposed to transformation back home in South Africa is not true. We were well taught by Nelson Mandela and other iconic leaders like Oliver Tambo how to continue to build a united nation out of the diverse groupings that we have in South Africa.”
“With the only country on the continent where the colonizers came to stay and we had never driven them out of our country, so they are staying and they are making great progress. It is a fringe grouping that does not have a lot of support, that is Anti-transformation and Anti-change that will actually prefer to see South Africa going back to apartheid type of politics.” He added.
Ramaphosa also denied allegations that the white South Africans fled due to racism and persecution.
“And I said to him, I will never do that. I learnt at the feet of Nelson Mandela and we intend to proceed with the implementation of our Constitutional architecture and I thought in my conversation with him early in the morning and he understood that so those people who have fled have not been persecuted, they have not been treated badly.” He indicated.
Meanwhile, 59 white South Africans have arrived in the US.
Source: Elvisanokyenews.net
