Donald Trump's administration quietly spent an estimated $400,000 of public money to fly just 59 white South Africans to the United States on a largely empty charter jet from Johannesburg to Washington, D.C., in May, according to former US officials and aviation cost estimates.
The flight was part of a fast‑tracked resettlement programme created for white Afrikaners, whom Trump has repeatedly portrayed as victims of racial persecution and even 'genocide' in post‑apartheid South Africa, a narrative the South African government and several local experts have consistently rejected.
