Hot topic for Trump, Ramaphosa

THIS week’s news that around 50 Afrikaners have upped and left South Africa for the greener pastures of the US and were afforded refugee status by the Americans. For some, that has gone down like a piece of barely-cooked wors from a braaivleis.

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That's because the classic connotations of the word refugee is usually associated with people fleeing impending danger and their compulsion causing them to make daring exits to be free from their oppressors’ clutches.

There has been camera-generated footage circulating on media platforms of the wantaway group composed and queuing with luggage in hand at the OR Tambo Airport, waiting for a specially chartered flight to their new homeland.