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Dirco lashes out at AfriForum for backing US policy favouring Afrikaners

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November 04, 2025

THE Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has hit back at AfriForum for welcomin; the United States government's new refugee policy that prioritises Afrikaners, accusing the lobby group of hypocrisy and undermining South Africa's sovereignty.

- XOLILE MTEMBU

In a formal Presidential Determination published in the Federal Register, US President Donald Trump set a ceiling of 7 500 refugees for the 2026 fiscal year, the lowest in American history, and directed that most of those places be reserved for white Afrikaners.

The Trump administration justified the move by citing alleged “targeted discrimination and insecurity” faced by the minority group.

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