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President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the “egregious actions of the Republic of South Africa.” The South African government has passed legislation allowing it to seize white-owned farms without compensation.
“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,” the order states.
“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,” it continues.
President Trump’s order mandates that all aid and assistance to South Africa should be suspended, “to the maximum extent allowed by law”—although agency heads are given discretion to maintain some aid in exceptional circumstances.
Moreover, the order states that “the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”
“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,” it explains.
Afrikaners, sometimes referred to as Boers, are the primarily Dutch-descended people who account for the lion’s share of South Africa’s white minority. They have been present in the country since 1652 A.D.
White farmers in neighboring Zimbabwe had their lands seized, and were in some cases killed, in the 2000s. Food production promptly collapsed, leading to famine and a dramatic economic collapse.
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President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the “egregious actions of the Republic of South Africa.” The South African government has passed legislation allowing it to seize white-owned farms without compensation.
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