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White S. Africans Clamour For US Resettlement After Trump Order

Some Afrikaner farmers fear their land will be expropriated by the government as happened in neighbouring Zimbabwe (Credit: AFP)

A deluge of more than 20,000 queries crashed the email server of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the United States after President Donald Trump said he would prioritise white South Africans in a refugee programme, the chamber said Monday.

Trump and Pretoria are locked in a diplomatic row over a land expropriation act that Washington says will lead to the takeover of white-owned farms.

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