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Addressing Egregious Actions of
The Republic of South Africa
EXECUTIVE ORDER
February 7, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. 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.
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 United States cannot support the government of South
Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its ‘undermining
United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our
Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of
the United States that, as long as South Africa continues these unjust and
immoral practices that harm our Nation:
(a) the United States shall not
provide aid or assistance to South Africa; and
(b) the United States shall
promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored
race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property
confiscation.
Sec. 3. Assistance. (a) All executive
departments and agencies (agencies), including the United States Agency for
International Development, shall, to the maximum extent allowed by law, halt
foreign aid or assistance delivered or provided to South Africa, and shall
promptly exercise all available authorities and discretion to halt such aid or
assistance.
(b) The head of each agency may
permit the provision of any such foreign aid or assistance that, in the
discretion of the relevant agency head, is necessary or appropriate.
Sec. 4. Refugee Resettlement and Other Humanitarian
Considerations. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize
humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United
States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are
victims of unjust racial discrimination. Such plan shall be submitted to
the President through the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security
Advisor.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing
in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted
by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or
in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
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