Queuing in Crocs for a private plane doesn’t have quite the same ring as walking barefoot over the Drakensberg, but still, as 49 self-identified Afrikaners who also self-identify as persecuted head into self-imposed exiled in the US, national myths still echo around OR Tambo International Airport.

Needless to say, the micro-exodus has sent parts of social media into frenzies of self-righteousness, with some critics denouncing the so-called refugees as inveterate racists while some supporters praise them as frontier homesteaders sensibly fleeing a hellscape...