President Trump announced Friday that “every farmer” who flee South Africa will be able to come to America and receive the “rapid path” to citizenship.
“South Africa is terrible for longtime farmers in the country,” the 78-year-old president explained about the true society. “They confiscate their land and farms, and it's much worse than that. It's a bad place right now and we're stopping all federal funds.”
On February 7, Trump signed an executive order ending foreign aid to African countries in response to a law passed last year, allowing the majority of black governments in the White House language to “seize the agricultural property of minority Africans without compensation.”
The 2024 Expropriation Act aims to cancel the outcome of apartheid, allowing the government to redistribute the land.
“To take it a step further,” Trump added Friday. “Peasanctuaries from South Africa (with family!) who are trying to flee the country for security reasons will be invited to the United States on a rapid path to citizenship. This process will begin soon!”
Trump's right-hand man and leader of the Government Efficiency Bureau, Elon Musk, born in Pretoria, South Africa, has lived there for the first 18 years of his life, and frequently posts on X, who expresses his frustration with the government.
“Sterlink is not permitted to operate in South Africa because I am not black,” Musk wrote earlier on Friday.
On Tuesday, the billionaire wrote: There are no hyphens. That said, what's happening in South Africa is very wrong. Not what [late former President Nelson] Mandela was totally intended. ”
Trump's February executive order also criticized South Africa for siding with Hamas over Israel in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
“South Africa has gained an active position towards the United States and its allies, including denounced Israel rather than the International Court of Justice's genocide and reinvigorated ties with Iran and developing commercial, military and nuclear arrangements,” the document read.
The US gave South Africa more than $320 million in 2024. This is primarily for health and humanitarian assistance.
