By Simon Nare
The SA Chamber of Commerce in the United States has confirmed that an overwhelming number of white South Africans have expressed interest in moving to the US following an offer by President Donald Trump to resettle in his country.
In response to the Expropriation Act, Trump signed an Executive Order on 7 February granting refugee status to Afrikaners who wished to resettle in the US.
According to Trump, he signed the order to promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.
SACCUSA chairman and president Neil Diamond said that within hours of the announcement of the order, the chamber was flooded with inquiries by interested white South Africans who wanted to know about the process to resettle.
“In the first few hours after the news broke and it went live, we received thousands of emails, text messages, WhatsApp, Facebook messages
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