The first group of South Africa whites gave us the position of refugees leaving us

The first group of South Africa eggs The officials said that those granted by the United States are scheduled to leave Johannesburg on Sunday.

The flight is scheduled to leave from Johannesburg or Tambo Airport around 2 pm on its way to Dakar to refuel before flying to Washington, DC.

“The request for the permit (to the ground) said that African moved to the United States of America refugees,” Colin Maybi, a South African Ministry of Transport spokeswoman, told AFP.

The plane – an American rented plane – is scheduled to arrive at Dallas International Airport in Washington at about 6 am on Monday, and then will fly to Texas.

Mesaibi said that his ministry had not received any other requests for more flights for resettlement.

US officials planned a press event on Monday at Dallas Airport to welcome the group, according to Government documents obtained by CBS News last week. Sources familiar with the effort told CBS News that the timing of the plan could change.

In February, President Trump released Executive order Officials are directed to use the American Refugee Program to resettle the Africans, who are an ethnic group in South Africa consisting of the descendants of European colonists.

Mr. Trump, at the time, claimed that white South Africa faced “government -based discrimination.” He pointed out that the American conservatives, such as South Africa, Elon Musk, said that the seizures of racist motives owned by South Africa whitening. The Land confiscation law aims to compensate for inequality firmly under the previous apartheid system.

The government of South Africa has Denounce Any ground sources or discrimination of racist motives.

The initiative arranged in a hurry to welcome Afrikanis stand in a flagrant contradiction as the Trump administration moves to ban most other refugees from entering the United States

Also, the treatment of the Africans granted to refugees was unusually fast. Before Mr. Trump’s second term, The Foreign Ministry said The refugee process took, on average, between 18 to 24 months to complete it due to background examination, medical performances and other interviews. The enthusiasts have been ready to travel to the United States in this process within months or even weeks.

Meanwhile, the relations between South Africa and the United States had participated in the nose this year on a group of local and foreign policy issues, and reached its peak in the expulsion of the Pretorian ambassador to Washington in March.

Mr. Trump said in March that any South African farmer who seeks to “flee” will have a “highway” for the American citizen, despite all other expatriates to refugees to the United States as soon as he took office in January.

South Africa Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the resettlement of the Africans “under the guise of” refugees “are fully motivated and designed to question the constitutional democracy of South Africa.

However, “do not prevent citizens who seek to leave the country from doing so.”

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the American embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, is conducting an interview with those who applied for the resettlement of the United States under Mr. Trump’s directives to welcome Afrikanis and that it continues to receive investigations.

The administration added: “Although we are unable to comment on individual issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives priority to resettlement of refugees in the ovens in South Africa who are victims of non -fair racial discrimination.”

South Africa, whites, who make up 7.3 % of the population, generally have a higher living level than the black majority in the country.

African -led governments have mainly imposed the racial separation system that was deprived of black South Africa, who represent 75 % of the population and political and economic rights. The country allowed equal vote in 1994, which led to the election of Nelson Mandela as the first black prime minister.

Sarah Carter and

Camello Monteoyo Galvies

He contributed to this report.