South Africa Reports

🇺🇸🇿🇦 Senator Ted Cruz on X: South African President Ramaphosa is in Washington, DC, seeking a reset after President Trump repeatedly and rightly criticized South Africa for human rights violations and activities that undermine our national security. Ramaphosa is pivoting toward China and taking an aggressive position attacking Israel at the International Court of Justice, where he is pushing for precedents and policies that will not just undermine Israel but also expose American officials to vulnerabilities. I have every confidence that President Trump will demand South African officials change their policies, and will hold them accountable if they don’t. 📎 SenTedCruz

🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa’s government plans to offer Elon Musk a workaround of local black ownership laws for his Starlink internet service to operate in the country, aiming to ease tensions with both the billionaire and US President Donald Trump. The offer will come at a last-minute meeting planned for Tuesday night between Musk or his representatives and a delegation of South African officials traveling with President Cyril Ramaphosa, according to three people familiar with the discussions. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🇺🇸 Elon Musk on X: Just received this from a friend visiting South Africa 📎 Elon Musk

✡️🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa’s chief rabbi rejects refugee program for Afrikaners A vocal critic of the South African government, Goldstein backed Trump’s opposition to South Africa for its cooperation with Iran and its new land expropriation law, which Goldstein believes will slow the country’s already sluggish economy. Since Trump decided to admit some white South Africans into the United States as refugees Goldstein has changed his tone. He told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he sees the move as a “mistake.” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-854027

🇺🇸🇿🇦 White House bans U.S. agencies from all work on G-20 in South Africa The White House National Security Council has ordered U.S. agencies and departments to suspend work with the Group of 20 conference set to be hosted by South Africa this year, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a government decision not yet made public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/14/white-house-g20-boycott-talks/ https://archive.is/AQoe1

🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa’s President Calls Afrikaner Refugees ‘Cowards’ for ‘Running Away’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa slammed Afrikaner refugees who left for the United States on Tuesday, saying that it was “cowardly” for them to leave racial discrimination and threatened expropriation. 📎 Kallie Kriel

🇿🇦Conscious Caracal on X: "These two headlines read together tell one hell of a story. It's about collective punishment. It's about revenge. And it's sick." 📎 ConCaracal

ANC statement inadvertently admits that Afrikaner refugees are fleeing vengeful persecution. "They flee from... justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege." I think we all know what that means.

🇺🇸🇿🇦 Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/ 📝 Dissident Soaps: They’ve resettled over 100,000 refugees into the US over the past decade but being asked to resettle 49 White people was simply a bridge too far for them. https://x.com/DissidentSoaps/status/1921972551825154278

The President of South Africa calling white South Africans 'colonisers' and implying we should be grateful we weren't chased out of South Africa. He then goes on to say that the refugees fleeing South Africa because of race-based persecution and the legal racial discrimination against them, are leaving because they want apartheid back.

🇺🇸🇿🇦 "It's a genocide that's taking place. White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa." @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🇺🇸 Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week The Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the United States early next week, according to officials briefed on the plans and documents obtained by The New York Times. Although the president halted virtually all other refugee admissions shortly after he took office in January, his administration hastily put together a program to allow in white South Africans, who he claims have been the victims of racial persecution in their home country. The administration plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for an event marking the arrival of the South Africans, who belong to the white minority Afrikaner ethnic group, according to the memo from the Department of Health and Human Services. The administration initially planned to welcome the Afrikaners on Monday, but some officials familiar with the matter cautioned that the plans remained in flux, subject to flight logistics and processing of the group. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-refugees.html https://archive.is/Cpa9A

🔸 Today we celebrate the Afrikaans language's 100th birthday as an official language @SouthAfricaReports

🇬🇧/🇿🇦 The United Kingdom denied Julius Malema a visa to London for the Cambridge conference this weekend 📎 Julius Malema

🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa Investigates White Farmer for X Posts Critical of Racist Politicians The Government of South Africa announced Wednesday that it is investigating a farmer for his social media posts that allegedly spread “racist” and “false information” that reached decision-makers in the United States. The announcement came after News24, a South African news website, conducted an investigation to reveal (i.e. to “dox”) the owner of an account on X (formerly Twitter) known as “Twatterbaas,” with which Elon Musk had interacted. News24 claimed the account has “posted racist tropes” and that the owner, Sebastiaan Jooste, is “one of the leading figures posting information about farm murders and attacks.” The tactics used by News24 to target a private citizen recall those used by CNN during the first Trump administration, when it pursued ordinary people who unknowingly joined fake Russian Facebook groups. A separate investigation by South African political news website PoliticsWeb found that the Twatterbaas account had not, in fact, created racist content or posted misinformation, but rather had largely focused on reposing racist comments made by South African politicians, including the notorious “kill the Boer” chant popularized by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) head Julius Malema. Some posts had then gone viral. It is the position of the South African government, and the consensus in much of the South African media, that the problem in U.S.-South African relations is “misinformation,” and not South Africa’s actual policies. https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2025/04/30/south-africa-investigates-white-farmer-for-x-posts-critical-of-racist-politicians/

🇿🇦🟧 Acting President Gwede Mantashe wants to turn Orania into a melting pot: “Actually, if I would be a president for more than three hours, I would declare that people must go and build in Orania. Black people must go and build there. And we mix them. They appreciate that hatred can never survive.” https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mixing-orania-could-help-cut-racial-divides-in-sa-mantashe/

🟧🇧🇬 Joost Strydom on X: "GOOD NEWS! Orania delegation to Bulgaria is well received. We were invited to explain the Orania model in Bulgaria. I had to do a lecture of both two hours, because every sentence had to be translated. Directly after the presentation I also received invitations for two TV interviews, a good opportunity to present Orania's case. The language gap is big, but my big thanks to Георги Драганов [Georgi Draganov] who not only translated thoroughly, but is so well-read about Orania that he was often able to help explain context! It was a great privilege to have you as a guide. More than 100 years ago, Bulgarians came to help the Boers as volunteers. They were enthusiastic about our ideal of freedom. Unfortunately, in the 80s we met on different sides of the border war, because they were trapped under the yoke of communism. They were able to shake it off by expelling communism from their country, and since then their economy has grown by 700%! Now we meet again, and it is clearly a positive encounter. So different, yet with so much in common. The same challenges, perhaps the same solutions? Thank you very much for the incredibly hospitable reception!" 📎 Joost Strydom

🇺🇸📞🇿🇦 Hours before Zelensky and Ramaphosa met in Pretoria, Ramaphosa had a telephonic conversation with Trump: "I spoke to President Trump to discuss the peace process in Ukraine. We both agreed that the war should be brought to an end as soon as possible to stop further unnecessary deaths. We both agreed to meet soon to address various matters regarding US-South Africa relations. We also spoke about the need to foster good relations between our two countries." 📎 Cyril Ramaphosa

🇺🇦🇿🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed that he is open to an unconditional ceasefire to facilitate peace talks according to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa @SouthAfricaReports

The EFF (Julius Malema's communist party famous for chanting "kill the Boer") marched in protest of Orania this morning with a list of demands for the premiere in the Northern Cape: "Orania must fall. Whiteness must fall. Land must be expropriated without compensation.". Joost Strydom, spokesman for Orania responds. "If a community falls, what will you gain? Jobs, opportunities, education? Why don't you demand more SOLUTIONS from your leaders?" Learn more about Orania here and learn about other inspiring solutions for South Africa in our full length interview with Joost Strydom and Ernst Roets on: 🔗 YouTube 🔗 Substack 🔗Follow Joost Strydom on X