Cyril Ramaphosa says that Afrikaners ‘run away’ from South Africa to our ‘cowards’ are

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who moved to the US to resquate “cowards” and say: “they will return quickly”.

The Akrikaners group Arrived in the US on Monday After President Donald Trump granted them the refugee status and said they were confronted with racial discrimination.

But Ramaphosa said that those who wanted to leave were not happy with efforts to tackle the inequalities of apartheid past, so that their relocation was called a “sad moment for them”.

“If South Africans we are resilient. We don’t run away from our problems. We have to stay here and solve our problems. If you walk away, you are a coward, and that is a real cowardly act,” he added.

Trump and his closest ally, born in South Africa Elon Musk, said that there was a “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa – A claim that has been disredded on a large scale.

The US has also accused the South African government of seizing land of white farmers without paying compensation.

More than 30 years after the end of the decades of rule due to the white minority of South Africa, black farmers only have a small part of the best agricultural land in the country, with the majority still in white hands, leading to anger about the slow pace of change.

In January, President Ramaphosa signed one controversial legislation through which the government can grab the country of private property Without compensation in certain circumstances, when it is considered “fair and in the public interest”.

But the government says that no country has yet been seized under the law.

Trump has offered to resettle the white Afrikaners, descendants of mainly Dutch settlers, and said they fled a “terrible situation” in South Africa.

Ramaphosa said on Monday at an agricultural exhibition in the province, said that the Afrikaners moved to the US because they were not “favorably removed” for efforts aimed at tackling the challenges of the country.

“If you look at all national groups in our country, black and white, they stayed in this country because it is our country and we should not walk away from our problems. We have to stay here and solve our problems,” said Ramaphosa.

“I can bet you will be back soon because there is no country like South Africa,” he added.

His “coward” notes that some users of social media are angry, who condemned it as an insult to hurt white South Africans.

The Afrikaners group was welcomed by Top -Marican officials who claimed that they had lived “under a shadow of violence and terror in South Africa.

“Welcome to the land of the Free,” said deputy State Secretary Chris Landau, which he received the South Africans who landed on Dulles Airport near Washington DC on Monday.

Some held up young children and waved small American flags in the arrival area decorated with red, white and blue balloons on the walls.

Earlier on Monday, President Ramaphosa told an Africa CEO forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, that he had recently told Trump during a telephone conversation that the American assessment of the situation was “not true”.

“We are the only country on the continent where the settlers came and we never removed them from our country,” he added, rejecting claims that Afrikaners were persecuted.

Ramaphosa said that dozens of white South Africans who arrived in the US on Monday “do not fit in the bill” for refugees.

The South African leader said he will soon meet Trump about the issue.

Trump has threatened to boycott the upcoming G20 top in South Africa, unless the “situation is taken care of”.