South Africa Reports

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee passes first round of bill that would sanction South African officials A Bill that would require the Trump administration to conduct a full review of US-South Africa relations and to identify South African government and ANC leaders eligible for sanctions, passed the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee this week. The committee passed the “US-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Act of 2025” by a vote of 34-16, with 28 Republicans and six Democrats supporting it and only Democrats opposing. It will now go to the full House of Representatives, where observers believe it will pass. It envisages SA government and ANC leaders being sanctioned under America’s Global Magnitsky Act, which imposes financial and visa restrictions on individuals deemed guilty of human rights abuses or corruption. The Bill would also require the US Administration to determine if South Africa has undermined US national security or foreign policy interests. @SouthAfricaReports

Well then. The channel was correct, but then it wasn't rocket science to see where this was heading. ConCaracal 🔗

🇺🇸🇿🇦 US treasury’s Scott Bessent to skip G20 meeting in SA His decision to miss the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting is the second time he has chosen not to attend a G20 meeting in SA https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2025-07-09-us-treasurys-scott-bessent-to-skip-g20-meeting-in-sa/

🇺🇸🇿🇦 U.S. President Trump has posted this letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa in which he explains that South Africa will be charged a tariff of 30% starting on August 1st on any and all products sent to the United States. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🇿🇦 South Africa built 1,583% more dam capacity in the 30 years before 1994 than after it Between 1964 and 1994, the government constructed 14 new dams that can store over 200 million cubic meters of water. Between 1994 and 2024, it only built two. https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/830238/south-africa-built-1583-more-dam-capacity-in-the-30-years-before-1994-than-after-it/

🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa seeks extension of Trump tariff deadline to pursue trade deal South Africa has asked for more time to negotiate a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration before his higher tariff regime goes into effect on July 9, Pretoria's trade ministry said on Tuesday. South Africa aims to secure a trade deal that would exempt some of its key exports from the tariffs, including autos, auto parts, steel, and aluminium. It has offered to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in exchange. It is also seeking a maximum tariff application of 10% as a worst-case scenario, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition said in a statement. @SouthAfricaReports

🟧 Joost Strydom on X: Update from Orania, South-Africa The US Government just told an Afrikaner-delegation that the following four preconditions must be met before any normalization of bilateral relations between the United States and South Africa can happen. 1. Farm attacks and farm murders be classified as priority crimes 2. ANC publicly distances itself from and condemns "Kill the Boer" and "Kill the farmer" 3. Expropriation of any property only takes place subject to fair compensation and only after all legal processes have been exhausted 4. American companies be exempted from black economic empowerment legislation As an Afrikaner in Orania, I ask; What about adding a fifth condition; namely that the accord on Afrikaner Self-determination that the government signed in the 1990’s, and codified in article 235 of the South African constitution be honored? Is that not a good long term solution for stability, and prosperity? 📎 Joost Strydom

🇺🇸🇿🇦 The White House has set out four preconditions for the normalisation of bilateral relations between the United States and South Africa: 1. Farm attacks and farm murders be classified as priority crimes 2. ANC publicly distances itself from and condemns "Kill the Boer" and "Kill the farmer" 3. Expropriation of any property only takes place subject to fair compensation and only after all legal processes have been exhausted 4. American companies be exempted from black economic empowerment legislation @SouthAfricaReports

🚢🇿🇦 Despite the diversion of trade from the Suez Canal to around the Cape of Good Hope, activity in South African ports remain unchanged. 📎 Codera

🟧 Joost Strydom on X: "Should Dries van Langenhove be offered a temporary refugee status in Orania? 📎 Joost Strydom

🇬🇧/🇿🇦 UK Denies Malema's Visa Application for Inciting White Hatred The United Kingdom refused to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa for the second time. In a letter from the UK Home Office Secretary, he was denied because of his support for Hamas, as well as his calls to slaughter white people. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇼🇿🇲 Former Zimbabwean white farmers whose farms the Robert Mugabe dictatorship seized are thriving in Zambia and making a huge contribution to their new country. "Ironically, Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of the region, imported maize from Zambia last year." 📎 ConCaracal

🇿🇦 In October 1997 President Nelson Mandela himself conceded that farmers were being "massacred" under his govt. Between 1991 and 1997, 677 people killed in farm attacks, a death toll greater than that of white civilians in the Rhodesian Bush War. 📎 Politicsweb

🇿🇦 Conscious Caracal on X: HAPPENING NOW: More chanting about murdering farmers and the white minority in South Africa by a stadium full of thugs in red. A disgusting chant that the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, continues to defend. 🔗 ConCaracal

🇿🇦🚀 Musk wants to launch rockets from the Western Cape South African born billionaire Elon Musk, who is currently feuding with US President Donald Trump, wants to launch SpaceX rockets and possibly Starlink low earth orbit satellites (LEOs) from South Africa. In the closed door meeting at the White House after the explosive public clash between Trump and the South Africans, Musk raised two key interests in South Africa – launching rockets from the Denel Overberg Test Range near Arniston, and the current shortage of magnets that require rare earths that China is restricting from being exported. SpaceX is interested in the Overberg site to launch satellites that would cross the south pole, and for Starlink LEOs that provide access to broadband, two sources in the South African space sector said. The site, the brainchild of the Aerospace Systems Research Institute (ASRI) led by Prof. Michael Brooks at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, was officially launched in May last year, and in December it launched two suborbital rockets. The institute’s primary focus is on developing an indigenous commercial space launch capability for South Africa. More than 30 significant space companies and start-ups are based in South Africa. They collaborate with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/musk-wants-launch-rockets-arniston-w-cape-matisonn?sfnsn=scwspwa

🟧 Derek VanBuskirk, reporter at the Daily Caller, on X: Joost Strydom, CEO of the Orania Movement, gave me a tour of Orania—a town built by and for Afrikaners, a minority ethnic group in South Africa. Here’s what I learned: 🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/DerekVBK/status/1929950417086996939

🟧 Frans de Klerk on X: Orania — ever been? 📎 FransdeKlerk77

🟧 HILAAL Muslim TV: "Orania must condemn ALL crime!" 📎 Joost Strydom

🇿🇦 What's really going on in South Africa? We went to speak with the victims of farm attacks, to uncover the real stories behind the global headlines and see the devastation this brutal violence is leaving. 📎 Outpost

🇿🇦🇺🇸 President Ramaphosa says South Africa will not be instructed by the USA to arrest anyone for singing "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" because it is a "liberation chant." He claims that the chant calling for the killing of white farmers is not a call for anyone to be killed. 📎 Newzroom Afrika @SouthAfricaReports