South Africa will expel seven Kenyans who worked for the U.S. program to resettle Afrikaners, home affairs officials said, after intelligence indicated some Kenyan nationals entered on tourist visas and allegedly took jobs at a centre that processes refugee applications and following earlier questioning of U.S. staff and a protest at the U.S. Embassy.The expulsions deepen a diplomatic rift over
Donald Trump's campaign to admit Afrikaners — the U.S. has capped refugee admissions at 7,500 and taken punitive steps including freezing aid and excluding
South Africa from
G20 events — and
Tommy Pigott of the
State Department has demanded clarification while South African authorities and
CNN reject claims of a White genocide.