The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions on specific South Africans and warned of further actions if leaders of the country did not respond to President Donald Trump’s concerns over discrimination against White people.The visa restrictions will prevent select individuals from entering the U.S., and the federal government isn’t required to disclose who is affected by the policy, the New York Times reported.
Trump last year accused the government of South Africa of seizing land from Afrikaners, a white minority in South Africa, and allowing them to be killed, which he described as a genocide.
The claims of genocide against whites in South Africa have received criticism from some groups, and South African President Cyrile Ramaphosa called the accusations racist.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the U.S. remains “gravely concerned about racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination occurring against the Afrikaners and other minority populations in South Africa.”
The restrictions, Rubio said, would target South Africans involved in race-based discrimination, those responsible for the laws that enable the government to seize land without compensation and those who incite violence against racial minorities.
South Africa’s foreign minister, Ronald Lamola, said in a statement that the Trump administration is misrepresenting South Africa’s domestic policy and aligning itself with “fringe groups.”
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