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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. is cutting off all aid to South Africa over human rights violations.
Trump shared the statement in a Truth Social post before traveling to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl.
“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,” the post stated.
“A massive Human Rights VIOLATION is happening, for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it – We will act. Also, because of this, I will be cutting off all aid to South Africa until further notice!” Trump added.
Trump also signed an executive order on Friday concerning South Africa and his decision to stop sending aid to the nation.
“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,” the order stated.
“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 continued.
The order argued that the U.S. cannot the rights’ violations and “undermining” of American foreign policy impacting both the nation and its allies.
Trump first spoke out against South Africa earlier this month in an earlier post, hinting at his upcoming executive action.
“Terrible things are happening in South Africa. The leadership is doing some terrible things, horrible things so that’s under investigation right now. We’ll make a determination and until such time as we find out what South Africa is doing. They’re taking away land, they’re confiscating land, and actually, they’re doing things that are perhaps far worse than that,” Trump told reporters on Feb. 2.