The United States has announced a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign nationals it says are responsible for, or complicit in, policies involving race-based discrimination, incitement of imminent violence and uncompensated land seizures in South Africa.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy on Tuesday, September 15, citing what Washington described as ongoing concerns about the treatment of Afrikaners and other minority groups in South Africa.
In a statement, the US said it remained “gravely concerned” about what it described as racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination in South Africa.
The concerns listed by the US include race-based legislation, threats of land expropriation without compensation and what it described as the incitement of racial violence through “dehumanizing chants and slogans”.
Rubio said the South African government had not adequately addressed concerns previously raised by the US administration.
“As stated in President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14204, ‘Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,’ the United States remains gravely concerned about racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination occurring against the Afrikaners and other minority populations in South Africa,” Rubio said. read more…. source….https://iol.co.za/news/south-africa/2026-09-16-the-new-us-visa-restrictions-targeting-south-africa-explained/
