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Inside Trump’s Exception for White South African Refugees

John Eligon, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Gabriel Blanco, James Surdam, Christina Thornell and Brent McDonald
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May 20, 2025
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The Trump administration has welcomed white South Africans as refugees, even after suspending the refugee program for nearly all other groups. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, discuss the factors that led to this moment, in advance of this week’s White House meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Trump.

John Eligon, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Gabriel Blanco, James Surdam, Christina Thornell and Brent McDonald

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April 17, 2026
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Mugabe's son pleads guilty to pointing a gun in South Africa

Bellarmine Mugabe was arrested in February following the shooting of a 23-year-old man at his home in Johannesburg.

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April 16, 2026
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South African opposition figure sentenced to five years

Afrikaner lobby groups have tried to get the song banned, but South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that a “reasonably well-informed person” would understand that the song, which…