JOHANNESBURG—A plane carrying the first group of white Afrikaners to be resettled in the United States as refugees per an executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Washington on May 12.
South African officials confirmed to The Epoch Times that a private jet chartered by the U.S. government carrying 49 Afrikaners left O.R. Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg late on Sunday.
Some of the asylum seekers said they felt they had no choice but to leave South Africa, citing high unemployment and crime rates and an environment they said makes white people feel as if they don’t belong….