White South African ‘refugees’? The jokes write themselves

Why Trump’s decision to grant asylum to Afrikaners is ‘a slap in the face’ for Black people

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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. On Wednesday, the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, will visit Donald Trump in the White House. I spoke to Jonathan Jansen, a professor of education in Stellenbosch, about the tense backdrop to the trip, and the reaction in South Africa to Trump granting white farmers refugee rights in the US.