By Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Washington’s ally Israel.
The United States allocated nearly $440 million in assistance to South Africa in 2023, the most recent U.S. government data shows.
The White House said Washington will also formulate a plan to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees.
It said U.S. officials will take steps to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program for Afrikaners in South Africa, who are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers.
Trump has said, without citing evidence, that “South Africa is confiscating land” and that “certain classes of people” were treated “very badly.” South African-born
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