The South African government has strongly criticized the United States’ decision to prioritize refugee applications from white Afrikaners, dismissing claims of a ‘white genocide’ as baseless and lacking credible evidence. This response follows an open letter from prominent Afrikaner community members, who denounced the narrative as racially charged and rejected the relocation scheme. The South African government further emphasized that the low number of white Afrikaners applying for relocation to the US indicates a lack of persecution.