A white South African granted refugee status in America after Donald Trump deemed him a victim of racial discrimination has praised the country's work ethic as he settles into life in the US.
The first batch of 59 Afrikaners, a white minority in South Africa, who opted to flee for the US arrived in May after the White House fast-tracked their refugee applications.
Afrikaners descend from predominantly Dutch settlers and dominated the South African government which introduced apartheid - a system of racist segregation that was scrapped in 1994. Three decades on the majority of the country's best farmland remains in white hands.
But in February, President Trump signed an executive order giving them refugee status after he and South African-born Elon Musk claimed there was a 'genocide' of white farmers in the African nation - an unfounded claim which has been widely discredited.
However, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa did sign a contentious law in January allowing the government to seize privately owned land without compensation when it is deemed 'equitable and in the public interest'.
