The Trump administration has brought a small group of white South Africans to the United States as refugees in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort

For decades, South Africa was controlled under apartheid rule by the country's white minority, many of them descendants of Dutch colonists. Apartheid, a system of legalized segregation, deprived the majority of citizens of basic rights and forced many Black South Africans to live in ethnic Bantustans.

Relative wealth and generations of history dissuade many Afrikaners from claiming Trump’s offer; ‘This is my country.’