By Ditaba Tsotetsi

Lamola has also dismissed the assertion that a group of self-proclaimed refugees. The group of white Afrikaners left SA for the United States (US) on 11 May.

Addressing the media in the SA city of Pretoria, Lamola confirmed that SA President, Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to the US, where he is expected to meet President, Donald Trump. According to Lamola, Ramaphosa’s office would be communicating the details of the trip soon

Lamola has strongly disputed the notion that the 49 white Afrikaners are refugees, after they were deemed as such by Washington.

“From the perspective of the South African government in terms of the executive orders that have defined the refugees, the South Africans as refugees we have stated in the statement we issued on Friday that in line with the international definition they do not qualify for that status and there is no persecution of White Afrikaner South Africans in South Africa. This has been proved by a number of statistics in our country including police reports,” Lamola said.

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