Seasoned media personality Sizwe Dhlomo reacted after a group of 59 Afrikaners left South Africa to be granted refugee status in the United States.

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

Nearly 50 White South Africans were granted refugee status despite other refugee resettlement programs being suspended.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said Afrikaners cannot survive culturally in the United States or in any other country after 49 Afrikaners went to the US as refugees.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the group granted refugee status in the US had shared 'harrowing' tales of the violence they had endured in South Africa upon their arrival.

The South African controversial poet Ntsiki Mazwai recently celebrated the departure of 49 Afrikaners who have left Mzansi to become refugees in America.

AN ARM of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Episcopal Migration Ministries, whose federal contract to settle refugees was curtailed by the Trump administration in January, has refused to resettle a small group of white South Africans whom the administration has since deemed to be refugees.