HUNDREDS MORE 'REFUGEES' COULD DEPART FOR THE US

Political analysts say white South Africans don't qualify for such status under International law

- PULE MAKGALE

REPORTS from government sources indicate that an additional 300 individuals are set to migrate to the United States, following the recent arrival of a group of 59 refugees on Monday.

However, the chief executive of lobby group AfriForum, Kallie Kriel, who still maintains that the scores of Afrikaners who have already left had genuine reasons, says he is not planning to leave South Africa.

This is despite serious allegations of human rights abuse levelled against the South African government.

During an interview on Newzroom Afrika, Kriel said that although the concerns raised by the Afrikaners were legitimate, AfriForum does not define the situation as “white genocide” as certain politicians in the United States define it.

“The fact is, we don’t use those terms, but there is a real problem. We have a situation in the country where the only category of crime that is called for, publicly, for instance, murders of farmers and Afrikaners with the ‘kill the boer’ chant.”

Soon after landing at Washington's Dulles International Airport, dozens of South African “refugees” - some with children happily holding small American flags - were welcomed by US First Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau.