Another group of Afrikaners in America

By Simon Nare

The Presidency has confirmed that a second group of white Afrikaners left the country for the United States as part of the US President Donald Trump’s programme to resettle white South Africans in that country under an executive order.

Whie addressing reporters President Cyril Ramaphosa’s programme, presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya was unkeen to give details.

“We are aware that there was a commercial flight that left with some people, but with much smaller number than the previous group. That information we have obviously as government we would have that information,” he said on Thursday.

“But we are still a little bit scornful of that programme because it is not part of any reality and we hope that some logic would apply around it. If there is a recruitment of people of a particular race with certain skills then it must be called as that, but it mustn’t