South Africa Reports

🇿🇦🇿🇼 Ramaphosa praises Zimbabwe's confiscation of white-owned farms On Friday in Harare President Ramaphosa praised Zimbabwe’s land confiscation process in the early 2000s as “essential” and “ambitious.” The South African government is working towards the same end goal as the communist Zimbabwean government did when they started with their Fast-Track Land Reform Program in 2000 after their previous "Willing Buyer, Willing Seller" mild approach failed. Ramaphosa is attempting to whitewash this disaster in Zimbabwe, to create momentum for the ANC’s land expropriation agenda in terms of the Expropriation Act of 2025. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🇷🇺🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 SANDF wargames with Russia and China to coincide with G20 Summit - News24 The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will hold the third round of joint naval exercises with Russia and China in November – at the same time that South Africa hosts the G20 Summit. The exercises, which caused controversy in the past, will bring further scrutiny of South Africa’s foreign relations and cast doubt on the country’s assertion that it is non-aligned in global affairs. The government hopes to use the summit to showcase South Africa as an attractive investment and tourism destination. SANDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Prince Tshabalala said in response to questions on Thursday: “The planning for exercise MOSI III is currently in progress for execution towards the end of November 2025. The exercise will continue as planned. The authority is exercised by the Department of Defence.” Minister of Defence Angie Motshekga did not respond to questions about whether consideration had been given to postponing the exercises due to sensitivities around South Africa’s foreign relations. Motshekga authorised and recently defended a visit to Iran by the chief of the SANDF, General Rudzani Maphwanya, last month. She also defended political comments made by Maphwanya, who expressed solidarity with Iran and stated that the two countries “share common goals and will always support the oppressed and defenceless people of the world”. Until recently, the SANDF also held regular military exercises with the US. In early August, the US cancelled the last remaining of these, a military relief exercise called Unity Shield, only weeks before it was due to take place. Rapport reported that South Africa had banned US forces from bringing weapons into the country, violating the original agreement between the two countries and causing the US to withdraw. https://www.news24.com/politics/sandf-wargames-with-russia-and-china-to-coincide-with-g20-summit-20250901-1136

🇿🇦 Starting today, all South African companies with more than 50 employees are forced to start downsizing the number of whites in their employment according to the quotas set out by the Employment Equity Amendment Act of 2022. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🚨RACE LAW ALERT: These are the SA govt's new race targets for able-bodied white men - to be implemented over the next five years. They apply to all employers - state and private - with staff complements of over 50 employees. The ultimate goal is a full numerus clausus in all institutions and at all levels, limiting this group to their dwindling percentage of the total population. This is now in place at the skilled technical level. These maximum percentages are also meant to incorporate foreign nationals. If employers do not comply with government's demands to classify and systemically discriminate against employees on the basis of race and gender - even if not seeking state contracts - they face swingeing fines. Their only defence is that they took all efforts possible to comply, but had "reasonable grounds" for failing to do so. 🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Politicsweb/status/1912792548902322336

🇿🇦💼 South African Jobs Bloodbath: More than 6,000 jobs eliminated in just two days Just this week, ArcelorMittal (AMSA) announced it will be winding down its long steel business after failing to find a solution to their continued losses. About 3,500 jobs will be lost. Glencore will be shutting down its ferrochrome facilities removing nearly 2,500 jobs. Ford will be sizing down its Port Elizabeth and Pretoria factories cutting nearly 500 jobs in the process. The companies cite various reasons for their downward spiral, including a lack of rail infrastructure, US tariffs, electricity prices, and cheap Chinese imports. @SouthAfricaReports

📝 Joost Strydom on X: Julius Malema found guilty. The equality court in Cape Town found Julius Malema guilty on counts of hate speech after his call for the murder of white men, including the statement “You must never be afraid to kill, a revolution requires killing at some point, because killing is part of the revolutionary act”. While it's good to see, I have very little faith in the system to decisively act on this verdict (short term) or a better and safer future for Afrikaners (long-term) because of it. The only real future is the one we build. 📎 Joost Strydom

🇺🇸🛩🇿🇦 US firm sues Denel for R125m over 9 fighter jets Denel is facing a lawsuit in Florida for millions of dollars from US firm Draken International, a private air-combat training group. They claim Denel failed to deliver nine of the 12 Cheetah fighter jets ordered in 2017. Draken is seeking at least R125 million in damages. 📝 Denel is South Africa's largest state-owned arms manufacturer. It has been mired in financial struggles since 2015, facing near-insolvency by 2021, with ongoing challenges in stabilizing its operations and managing debt. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦❌🇺🇸 South Africa Treasury and Banks Fear SWIFT Loss The CEOs of SA's top banks and the National Treasury have discussed the consequences of possible US sanctions on the country's payment system. Sowetan has learnt that finance minister Enoch Godongwana attended the Banking Association SA (Basa) board of directors meeting, where the issue of possible sanctions was on the agenda. It is believed that Godongwana is concerned about the implications of possible US sanctions on SA, and had intended to raise the matter with Basa at Friday's meeting. The fears are informed by the US-SA Bilateral Relations Review Act, a bill championed by Republicans congressman Ronny Jackson, which proposes a review of the US-SA relations and proposes sanctions on the leaders of the ANC and government officials. However, government insiders this week said there were concerns that the possible sanctions could possibly see SA kicked out of the interbanking system called SWIFT – a system that allows banks across the world to process payments. Russia, an ally of SA, was removed from SWIFT when the US imposed sanctions. https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2025-08-25-godongwana-alert-to-possible-us-sanctions/

🏘🟠 Update from Orania, South Africa for our international friends: We are in the era of Human Rights, but we as Afrikaners believe in God given rights and responsibilities. To be curators of a stable and secure future, we need to have a mindset of constructive contribution to our own future rather than being spectators waiting to be saved. 🔗 Joost Strydom

🟧 Frans de Klerk, Oranian media, on X: The UN has described South Africa’s Land Expropriation Act, signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa, as a “critical step in addressing the country’s racially imbalanced land ownership.” No one is coming to save you. Becoming self reliant is the only way. 📎 Frans de Klerk

🇮🇷🇿🇦 SANDF chief visits Iran to discuss ‘mutual national interests’ The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, has announced the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with South Africa. Major General Mousavi met and held talks with the Chief of the South African National Defense Force, General Rudzani Maphwanya, in Tehran on Tuesday. During their talks, Mousavi highlighted the significance of the high-ranking South African military delegation’s visit to Tehran, citing various regional and global developments. https://en.irna.ir/news/85911871/Iran-ready-to-expand-military-and-defense-cooperation-with-South 📝 Dean Wingrin: "Disturbing that the South African military is playing politics, with SANDF pledging 'military and political alignment with the Iranians.' This high profile trip to Iran, at a sensitive stage of negotiations with the US, must be approved by the President? From this article, Iran views South Africa as a great ally against the West (SA's major trading partner). Unless Iran resumes nuclear talks soon, severe Snapback sanctions against Iran may be implemented, which may include secondary sanctions on anyone who trades with Iran." https://x.com/deanwingrin/status/1955530992015511689

🇿🇦❌🇺🇸 United States Publishes Human Rights Report on South Africa "The human rights situation in South Africa significantly worsened during the year; with the signing of Expropriation Bill (B23-2020) on December 20, South Africa took a substantially worrying step towards land expropriation of Afrikaners and further abuses against racial minorities in the country. Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings; arbitrary arrest or detention; and the repression of racial minorities. The government did not take credible steps to investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, including inflammatory racial rhetoric against Afrikaners and other racial minorities, or violence against racial minorities." https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-africa

🇿🇦📰❌🇺🇸 News24 works with State Security as a propaganda instrument – Washington Confirming long-held suspicions of the general public, American intelligence has attacked News24 for their assault on white farmers, opposition politicians and political whistleblowers Concerns have been raised in Washington over the erosion of press freedom in South Africa, with allegations that the State Security Agency (SSA) is undermining journalistic integrity. Lawmakers backing the US-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Act of 2025 (HR 2633) argue that the SSA’s actions threaten democratic principles. https://thecapeindependent.com/news24-works-with-state-security-as-a-propaganda-instrument-washington/

🇷🇺🚢🇿🇦 The crew of a Russian naval training ship that docked in Cape Town's Table Bay port on Tuesday were denied permission to disembark, with Russian authorities demanding reasons "so that a report can be made to Moscow". Alexander Ivashchenko, acting Russian consul general in Cape Town, wrote to the port's head of Home Affairs on Wednesday asking for an explanation as to why the crew of the Smolny were denied permission to leave the ship and disembark. The South African Border Authority's spokesperson said that a decision was made before the ship's arrival that the crew would not be allowed to disembark as they do not have passports. @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦ANC Shrugs Off US Sanctions Threat The ANC said the government won’t bow to demands from Donald Trump’s administration to change its policies even if that means its leaders are subjected to US sanctions. “They want us to do away with certain policies. It is not going to be possible,” said Fikile Mbalula, the secretary-general of the ANC, to reporters in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “If it means we are going to suffer through sanctions as leaders of the ANC, let it be. We will never back imperialists to subvert our democracy, to subvert our sovereignty.” @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🛫 Half a million white South Africans have left the country in 25 years More than half a million white South Africans have left the country in the last two decades, according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA)’s latest Mid-Year Population Estimates report for 2025. The data, which includes net international migration assumptions by population group, reveals that more than 500 000 white citizens have emigrated from South Africa between 2001 and 2026, with consistent net losses recorded every five years. White South Africans currently make up 4.5 million (7.1%) of the total population of 63.1 million. https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0302/P03022025.pdf @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 The South Africa government is preparing a package to support companies vulnerable to US reciprocal tariffs as it continues talks with Washington on a new trade deal. President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed a 30% tariff on imports from South Africa — the highest in sub-Saharan Africa — among a slew of levies that are being introduced in his revised global plan. South Africa noted the duties “with concern,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement. The “government is finalizing a package to support companies that are vulnerable to the reciprocal tariffs,” Ramaphosa said. “The package consists of a number of measures to assist companies, producers and workers affected by the tariffs on South African exports to the US.” https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/south-africa-continues-engage-us-government-reciprocal-tariffs

🇹🇼❌🇿🇦 Taiwan mulls chip restrictions amid South Africa name change row Taipei, July 29 (CNA) Taiwan is considering restricting semiconductor exports to South Africa in response to what it described as a "crude" downgrade of its diplomatic presence in the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday. To "safeguard national sovereignty and dignity, we are discussing countermeasures with relevant government agencies, including restricting chip exports to South Africa," Philippe Yen (顏嘉良), director-general for MOFA's Department of West Asian and African Affairs, said at a news briefing. Yen, however, said the types of Taiwanese chips involved in the proposed measure and the duration of any restrictions have yet to be finalized. He called on the South African government to halt such "crude" action and to initiate negotiations with Taiwan to resolve the issue. https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202507290013

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 Trump says he may skip G20 summit in South Africa, cites policy disapproval President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he might skip the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) leaders' summit in South Africa in November and send someone else to represent the United States, citing his disapproval of South African policies. "I think maybe I'll send somebody else because I've had a lot of problems with South Africa. They have some very bad policies," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦👨‍🌾 The US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor on X: 🔹 In support of POTUS' Executive Orders, DRL just returned from a trip to South Africa to learn more about rural farm attacks and the breakdown of rule of law. Here’s what we found 🔹 South Africa holds enormous economic and geopolitical promise. However, current breakdowns in law and order are not conducive to growth or collaboration with the United States. The South African government must speak clearly and act decisively to address crime and condemn the violence. 🔹 Violent crime is rampant in South Africa, but rural attacks—especially on farms—display a distinctly brutal pattern. Local sources reported 296 farm attacks and 49 murders in 2023, and that victims are disproportionately elderly, isolated, and face delayed police response. The South African Police Service reports the number increased to 55 farm murders in 2024. 🔹 These are not ordinary crimes. In some documented cases, reports detail victims tortured or killed without anything being stolen. Earlier this year, a man was beaten and hacked with a machete; in another incident, an elderly woman was assaulted and repeatedly stabbed. In both cases, no theft occurred. These attacks are not motivated by poverty alone. 🔹 In a notable 2023 incident, assailants chanted “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” as they stabbed their victim. But these aren’t fringe slogans—some South African leaders chant the same words to cheering crowds. In one case, graffiti praising these leaders was painted on a farmhouse before its owners were brutally attacked. Despite this, as POTUS highlighted earlier this year, many South African leaders have failed to condemn this song. https://youtube.com/watch?v=FLDl3mblm-c 🔹 The international community and mainstream media have decided to remain silent on this issue. Rejecting this moral failure, the United States condemns these brutal attacks and stands with all South Africans working to build a peaceful and more prosperous country. 📎 StateDRL