The Episcopal Church announcement comes just one day after 49 Afrikaners left their country for resettlement in the United States.

South Africa had "expressed concern" to the United States after reports it will accept from next week the first white Afrikaners it had offered to resettle, the foreign ministry said Friday. The South African government had "expressed concerns with the information conveyed that the United States has commenced with processing alleged refugees from South Africa",

Its gaping trade deficit stems not from maliciously unequal trade but from the fact that garment manufacturing forms a significant part of its economy. Some 75 percent of the jeans, T-shirts and polo shirts its dozen-or-so factories pump out every year,