Why is Trump punishing South Africa and who are the Afrikaners he wants to give refugee status to?
U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group
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