President Donald Trump announced Friday morning that the United States would immediately halt all federal funding to South Africa and create a rapid pathway to citizenship for South African farmers fleeing persecution.

“South Africa is being terrible, plus, 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 wrote.

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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. This process will begin immediately!”

Trump signed an executive order citing South Africa’s recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, which allows the government 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 states.

The document also pointed to South Africa’s foreign policy decisions, saying, “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.”

The order states that “it is the policy of the United States that, as long as South Africa continues these unjust and immoral practices that harm our Nation,” the U.S. “shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa” and “shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

Trump’s decision comes as part of his administration’s broader efforts to realign foreign aid and prioritize U.S. allies and national security interests.