Reports: US to end HIV funding over ‘failure to protect’ white South Africans

Staff Reporter

The United States is to end funding for HIV programmes in South Africa, escalating a dispute over Washington’s allegations that Pretoria has failed to protect Afrikaners and other white South Africans, according to reports by the Daily Caller and BBC.

The Daily Caller first reported on 18 June that the Trump administration had notified South Africa it was ending its President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) support after Pretoria “failed to protect white South Africans from violence and displacement”.

The State Department posted the Daily Caller article from its official X account late on Friday.

The BBC reported the decision was “over claims of Afrikaner persecution”.

According to the Daily Caller, the State Department said it was ending the funding because South Africa had