Refugee flight landed in US from South Africa; White South African Christian leaders say racial narrative is 'distorted'
A chartered jet carrying 59 white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday, marking the first group admitted under a newly created refugee pathway launched by the Trump administration. The arrivals, many of them Afrikaners, were granted entry under claims of “race-based persecution” in South Africa — a move that has triggered significant debate both internationally and within South Africa’s religious community.
