Those who departed South Africa have been criticized by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has called them “cowards.”
If the president has his way, South Africans will stay put and find solutions to their country’s challenges. President Trump resettled 59 white South Africans in the United States.
Upon their arrival in the US on Monday, the Trump branded them as “cowards” and vowed that “they’ll be back soon.”
Based on their assertion that they were victims of racial prejudice in their own country, the US president gave them refugee status.
He claimed that South Africans who are fleeing the nation are dissatisfied with his administration’s attempts to eradicate apartheid-era injustices.
He expressed his condolences for individuals fleeing the nation, saying, “We don’t run away from our problems.”
“When you run away you are a coward, and that’s a real cowardly act,” the president added, emphasizing that staying put was the best course of action to “solve our problems.”
The United States president and the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, have both accused South Africa of committing “genocide” against white farmers.
Furthermore, the Trump administration claimed that the African country’s leadership had wrongfully taken land from white farmers without compensating them.