The South African Afrikaners hoping to go to the US as refugees: 'We are an endangered species'

Donald Trump says white South Africans are being persecuted and so qualify for asylum but black farmers are also being killed.

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"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him. "If they want to come and kill us they can. At least it will take them time to get to me."

The fear of being attacked is very real for the white Afrikaner, who manages a farm with his wife and two young daughters. He did not want us to use his full name.

His grandfather and his wife's grandfather were both murdered in farm attacks, and he lives a two-hour drive from where the body of 21-year-old farm manager Brendan Horner was discovered five years ago, tied to a pole, with a rope around his neck.

Marthinus says he can't take a chance with his own family and, in February, they applied for refugee status in the US.