President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle "cowards", saying "they'll be back soon".The group of Akrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status,

The newly arrived people are from the ethnic minority of Afrikaners, the group of whites who ruled South Africa during apartheid.

The Trump administration granted the group refugee status due to alleged discrimination. South Africa has called the accusations "unfounded."