Over 20,000 inquiries crashed the South African Chamber of Commerce in the United States' email server after President Donald Trump announced his intention to prioritize white South Africans in a refugee program. Trump's move comes amidst a diplomatic row with Pretoria over a land expropriation act that Washington argues will lead to the seizure of white-owned farms. The South African government has condemned Trump's order as lacking factual accuracy and failing to recognize the country's history of colonialism and apartheid.
White South Africans are ‘rushing’ to take up Trump ’s offer: Here’s how many have enquired so farUS President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Picture: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP
Trump, whose tycoon ally Elon Musk was born in South Africa, said on Friday the law signed in January would “enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation”. “Our email server crashed over the weekend just due to the sheer volume of enquiries we have received,” Neil Diamond, head of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the US to be able to immigrate… What is alarming to us is the large volume of people that is interested in taking up this opportunity,” he said.
Trump has asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
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