Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday promoting the resettlement of a portion of South Africa's white minority known as Afrikaners to the United States, but groups representing them made it clear on Saturday that they aren't going anywhere. Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for comment on Sunday. Trump's executive order, which also cut off foreign aid to South Africa, was made in response to the...

President Donald Trump, in an executive order issued Friday, suspended aid to South Africa over alleged violations of the rights of Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority. The order also directs the secretaries of State and Homeland Security to prioritize the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees in the United States. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump wrote, “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY.” Last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the Expropriation Act, which empowers the government to seize privately...

Donald Trump has frozen US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers. Image: Ting Shen and ALFREDO ZUNIGA / AFP President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg’s denials. The law would “enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,” Trump said in an executive order, which...

The government of US President Donald Trump is freezing aid to South Africa citing a new law allowing land to be expropriated, in some instances, if deemed to be in the public interest. In a Friday executive order, Trump accused the government in Pretoria of "unjust and immoral practices." Trump instructed all US government agencies to "halt foreign aid or assistance" for South Africa until it ends such practices.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order halting all U.S. aid to South Africa and directing his administration to develop a plan for resettling White Afrikaners as refugees, citing what he called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination” against them. The order accuses South Africa’s government of seizing “ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and enacting “countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity” in employment, education and business.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order sanctioning South Africa over its treatment of the white Afrikaner minority while directing the State Department to clear the way for refugees to settle in the United States. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa assented on Jan. 23 to the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, which allows the expropriation of land without compensation in some cases. Many, including the U.S. government, interpreted it as a move against the white minority, which controls most farmland in the country. The executive order, titled, “Addressing the egregious...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order cutting all foreign aid to South Africa, citing concerns about the country "seizing" ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.

Since his inauguration last month, President Donald Trump has feverishly worked to restrict immigration to the United States and has started to revoke the legal status of some immigrants from Latin America who are in the U.S. legally. But on Friday, Trump swung open the nation’s doors to White South Africans. The president signed an executive order criticizing South Africa’s 2024 Expropriation Act, which allows the government to take land “for a public purpose” or “in the public interest” in exchange for “just and equitable compensation.” South African officials have...