By Katherine Tinsley
1:27am PDT, Mar 26, 2025
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Marco Rubio announced his commitment to protecting Afrikaners — white South Africans — after the nation passed a land expropriation law.
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Marco Rubio has been vocal about South Africa's attempt to address the historical land dispossession caused during the country's colonial and Apartheid periods.
"South Africa's leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disfavored minorities," Rubio told X followers on Monday, March 24.
"The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our nation amid this continued horrible threat of violence," the secretary of state added.
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Donald Trump shared his disappointment in South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
"In shocking disregard of its citizens' rights, the Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation," Trump wrote in a February executive order.
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South African Ambassador to the United States Embrahim Rasool criticized Donald Trump and his administration for their approach to South African policies before his March 15 exit.
"What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency, at home, and, I think I've illustrated, abroad as well," Rasool said.
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Embrahim Rasool went on to criticize Donald Trump's agenda: "The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white," he said.
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After hearing Embrahim Rasool's comments, Marco Rubio said the ambassador wasn't welcome in the U.S. anymore.
"South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country," he wrote on X.
"Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA," Rubio added.
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In February, Donald Trump complained about South Africa on Truth Social: "South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY," he wrote. "It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn't want to so much as mention."
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South Africa is attempting to repair the economic inequalities colonization and Apartheid caused, but Donald Trump doesn't approve of the efforts.
"A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won't stand for it, we will act," Trump has said. "Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!"
