Is U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that Australia is being “inundated” with fleeing South Africans true?
Well according to data from the African government, there are merits to his claims.
During an official meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on May 21, Trump told the leader a “tremendous number of people” from the nation had fled to the United States or Australia.
He also stated that white farmers, including Afrikaners–South Africans of Dutch origin—were being persecuted and subjected to brutality, violence, and land confiscations.
“They’re being executed. And they happen to be white, and most of them happen to be farmers,” Trump told Ramaphosa....
