President Donald J. Trump followed through on his threat to punish South Africa for its discriminatory treatment of white farmers, one of the world’s most blatant violations of human rights in the 21st Century.
On Friday, Trump issued an executive order formally sanctioning the black-controlled government over its racist – and some might suggest genocidal – policies toward whites, particularly a recently passed law that sanctioned the confiscation of land from the white minority population.
The order freezes U.S. assistance as a consequence of the country’s Expropriation Act which South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law last month, a diktat that the White House says “blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority Afrikaners.”
President Trump has imposed sanctions on South Africa due to their new racist land seizure legislation that targets whites.
He has ordered a halt to all aid to the country and directed federal agencies to focus on providing humanitarian assistance and facilitating the admission… pic.twitter.com/EyOyRLmIYf
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 7, 2025
According to the order, “In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 (Act), to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. This Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”
“In addition, South Africa has taken aggressive positions towards the United States and its allies, including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and reinvigorating its relations with Iran to develop commercial, military, and nuclear arrangements,” the order states. “The United States cannot support the government of South Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its undermining United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests.”
The Trump administration will also be announcing a refugee resettlement program “for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
Last week Trump called out South Africa for its racism toward whites which is justified as a response to the notorious racist Apartheid period with the remedy being to just impose more racism as revenge for past wrongs, much like the “woke” left has done on the domestic front.
President Trump just called out South Africa for their land confiscation and racism toward White South Africans.
“The United States won’t stand for it, we will act” and he’s cutting off ALL funding for them.
Watch how fast they stop singing songs about killing White people now! pic.twitter.com/kpXESupR45
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 2, 2025
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see,” he said in a post to Truth Social. “The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he would not be attending the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg to protest that country’s policies.
“South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio wrote in a post to X. “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.”
“As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country,” the White House said.
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