He said his department had not received any other application for further resettlement flights.
Relations between South Africa and the United States have nose-dived this year over a range of domestic and foreign policy issues, culminating in Washington’s expulsion of Pretoria’s ambassador in March.
‘Politically motivated’
One point of dispute is a land expropriation law meant to redress inequalities entrenched under the former apartheid system. Trump has claimed it would allow the South African government “to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation”.
Trump said in March that any South African farmer seeking to “flee” would have a “rapid pathway” to US citizenship, despite halting all other refugee arrivals to the US immediately after taking office in January.
South Africa’s foreign ministry said the resettlement of Afrikaners “under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy”.
It would, however, “not block citizens who seek to depart the country from doing so”, it added.
White South Africans, who make up 7.3% of the population, generally enjoy a higher standard of living than the black majority of the country.
Mainly Afrikaner-led governments imposed the brutal race-based apartheid system that denied the black majority political and economic rights until it was voted out in 1994.
-Agence France-Presse
