South Africa slam planned US sanctions over alleged racial discrimination

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Lamola was responding to an announcement made on Tuesday by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington would be enacting a new policy aimed at South Africans involved in what he called “race-based” discrimination against white Afrikaners.

Rubio disse que os EUA restringiriam vistos para indivíduos “responsáveis por, ou cúmplices na promulgação ou implementação de leis ou políticas que possibilitam a tomada de terras sem compensação, discriminação baseada em raça e/ou o incitamento de violência iminente contra membros de grupos étnicos ou raciais minoritários na África do Sul”.

Afrikaners are a minority in South Africa that descends from mostly Dutch colonial settlers, who formalised a system of apartheid in the country that saw land and resources seized from the majority Black population, who were largely relegated to live in enclaves called “Bantustans”.

The apartheid system persisted until 1994, when the country’s first democratic elections brought Black Africans into power.

A 2017 South African government report found that whites, who make up about 7 percent of the population, owned disproportionately large amounts of land, including 72 percent of the individually owned farmland.

A África do Sul tem implementado programas para comprar terras e redistribuí-las, e em 2025 aprovou uma lei que permitiria a expropriação de terras, inclusive em alguns casos limitados sem compensar os proprietários.

US President Trump has been lobbied by Afrikaner groups decrying that law and what they say is government-backed discrimination and violent attacks against them, claims that the South African government says are misinformation.

South Africa has also been targeted by Trump for its filing of a case in the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

A administração Trump permitiu que os Afrikaners brancos recebessem asilo nos EUA, e no ano passado congelou a maioria da assistência externa à África do Sul.

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