US-South Africa relations: Almost 70,000 South Africans interested in US asylum

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US-South Africa relations: Almost 70,000 South Africans interested in US asylum
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This follows President Donald Trump's February executive order offering Afrikaners refugee status.

Close to 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest in moving to the US following Washington's offer to resettle people from the country's Afrikaner community, a business group has said.

Relations between the US and South Africa have become increasingly strained since Trump became president in January. The US-based business group is not an official government body, but got involved in the registering of interest by accident after it was inundated with requests for more information about resettlement, Mr Diamond told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika.Race policies or Israel - what's really driving Trump's fury with South Africa?

Tensions between South Africa and the US spiked in January, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law a bill allowing the state to seize land without compensation, provided it was in the "public interest".

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