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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

US to bar some South Africans over claims of anti-white discrimination

Three people wearing T-shirts with Donald Trump made to look like an Afrikaner farmer, above the slogan ‘Make Afrikaans Great Again’
Afrikaners in Pretoria showing support for Donald Trump after he signed an executive order granting them refugee status in the US in February 2025. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues to claim that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white minority Afrikaners.

The announcement did not specify individuals who were barred from the US. Trump has spent his second term falsely claiming there is a “white genocide” in South Africa and railing against its affirmative action policies.

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