Minister Lamola denounces US Refugee Admissions Programme as race-based [SOUND]

# The minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says government does not support the US Refugee Admissions Programme for South Africans. US president Donald Trump established the resettlement initiative in February 2025, alleging that Afrikaners faced state-sponsored racial discrimination, violence, and confiscation of their land. In May, Trump raised the annual US refugee admissions ceiling from seven-thousand-500 to 17-thousand-500. Speaking at an event in New York, Lamola says the programme is not refugee-based but race-based: