A GROUP OF around 50 white South Africans have arrived in the United States for resettlement after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status as victims of what he called a “genocide.” Trump essentially halted refugee arrivals after taking office, but is making an exception for the Afrikaners despite South Africa’s insistence that they do not face persecution. Afrikaners are the descendants of predominantly Dutch colonisers and made up most of the government that imposed apartheid in South Africa, a system that denied black people basic rights. “Welcome to the land of the free,” Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau...