CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump announced Friday morning a rapid path to US citizenship for South African farmers, citing their “terrible mistreatment” under the country’s current policies. He also declared an immediate halt to all federal funding for South Africa.
“South Africa is being terrible…to long time Farmers in the country. They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. A bad place to be right now, and we are stopping all Federal Funding,” Trump explained in a TruthSocial post.
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“To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship,” he stated.
Trump’s decision follows growing concerns over land seizures and violent attacks against Afrikaner farmers, a predominantly Dutch-descended white ethnic group that has faced increasing persecution.
Last month, Trump signed an executive order cutting off federal aid to South Africa, in an effort to condemn property laws that he says impose “unjust racial discrimination” against Afrikaners. According to a White House fact sheet, the South African government “blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority descendants of settler groups” by seizing their “agricultural property without compensation.”
The law in question, known as the Expropriation Act, permits the South African government to seize private land – including expropriation without compensation. According to the government, the law is meant to address historical land disparities because of the country’s apartheid past.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson earlier this week, Afrikaner author and activist Dr. Ernst Roets warned that the government’s policies are “preceded by speech about how white people are criminals and should be treated like criminals – how everything they have is illegitimate and stolen – in which people are encouraged to go and invade their farms.”
“And then, they chant, ‘Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!’” Roets said, pointing to a notorious slogan often heard at South African political rallies. He explained that “Boer” is a term used to refer to an Afrikaner.
Following Trump’s February executive order, hundreds of Afrikaners gathered outside the US Embassy in Pretoria, expressing gratitude to Trump for taking a stand against the government’s mistreatment of farmers.
Hundreds of Afrikaners gathered in front of the USA Embassy in Pretoria to thank Elon Musk and Donald Trump for bringing awareness to & taking action against South Africa's 140+ race based laws.
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Trump stopped all aid for SA after its new "Expropriation Without Compensation Law" pic.twitter.com/T3sFBjW2Ba
Chief of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa but has distanced himself from the country’s current policies, said on X, “[W]hat’s happening in South Africa is deeply wrong. Not what Mandela intended at all.”