Native businessman Errol Langton has clapped at critics who questioned his resolution to go to the US as an “Afrikaner refugee”.
This comes as many South Africans – together with his stepdaughter – have questioned his claims of being a “farmer” and an “Afrikaner”. Many have additionally known as him “opportunistic” for wanting to begin once more overseas.
Errol and eight of his members of the family arrived within the US this week and are planning to calm down in Alabama.
AFRIKANER REFUGEE’S JOB TITLE LEAVES SA CONFUSED
Chatting with the New York Occasions about being a “refugee”, Errol Langton described himself as a “farmer” from KwaZulu-Natal’s coastal city of Hibberdene. There, he supposedly grew spinach, mustard, Swiss chard, and candy potatoes.
Errol has chosen to settle in Birmingham, positioned in Alabama, the identical metropolis his brother immigrated to years earlier than.
Nonetheless, Errol has determined to take up an “IT job” within the sector he coincidentally labored in and owned a large-scale enterprise again in South Africa.
On social media, South Africans have labelled the “Afrikaner refugee” as “opportunistic”.
Social commentator Bianca van Wyk stated: “How odd! A farmer who’s now working an IT job in Birmingham! Mr Langton…you ran an IT firm in South Africa. You may have by no means farmed. Why are you blatantly mendacity?”
TikToker person @sinnedbad jumped into the feedback, posting: “I labored with Errol as an Account Govt at an IT firm in Sandton.”
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Errol’s stepdaughter, Geneve Gouws, additionally questioned his resolution to go away South Africa.
She stated in a TikTok this week: “I’m fully shocked. What do they want safety from precisely? They’re not even Afrikaners.”
The younger girl went on to say that Errol “lied” in his software to change into a “refugee”.
She additionally believed that his claims of being a “sufferer of crime” have been a results of home abuse incidents along with her mom, whom he has since divorced.
“What lie do you must inform to get to America?” she added.
‘HATERS GONNA HATE’
Chatting with the New York Occasions, Errol Langton acknowledged that whereas it was “horrible “to be labeled as traitors and sellouts”, he added that “haters are going to hate”.
Since then, the “refugee” has posted a TikTok video – in an obvious American accent – from his “new house within the USA”.
Defending his actions, he stated, “I’m of Afrikaner descent. My household decided a very long time in the past to not communicate Afrikaans and switched to English.
Whereas his LinkedIn account lists him because the proprietor of an IT enterprise, Langton additionally claims that he was certainly a farmer.
He continued: “I did farming. I owned a farm or not less than leased a farm for greater than three years, the place I farmed with the leafy greens and tried to get business farming up and operating”.
He added: “So inform me, why don’t I qualify for this programme?
“I’ll communicate English and be two generations away from being actively Afrikaans. However I’m a South African Afrikaner, and that may be a reality.”
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