IN PICS: Afrikaner 'refugees' leave SA for US

JOHANNESBURG - Forty-nine Afrikaners are en route to the US after taking up US President, Donald Trump's, offer to move over as refugees.

Their chartered plane has left OR Tambo international Airport and the group is expected to arrive in the US today (Monday).

READ: 49 Afrikaners to leave SA for US on chartered flight

Washington officials will receive them when they touch down.

The move follows Trump's criticism of the Expropriation Act, claiming land was being confiscated and Afrikaners were being treated badly.

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