The State Department affirms that human rights in South Africa “have worsened” considerably “

The US State Department noted that the human rights situation in South Africa has “considerably aggravated” in the past year, citing reports of “extrajudicial killings” and repression against racial minorities.

The State Department performs an annual examination of human rights situations in the countries of the world, and it has targeted South Africa with new criticism in the 2025 report published on Tuesday. The report, which should be sent to Congress on Tuesday, said the United States has received several reports on the South African “The government or its agents” producing extrajudicial or arbitrary murders, as well as the repression of Afrikaner minorities.

“In July, the commissioner of the provincial police confirmed that in April, police pulled and killed at least 40 criminal suspects during shootings.

“Surveillance groups have noted death deaths often resulting from physical violence combined with a lack of medical treatment or subsequent negligence,” he continued.

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US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, during a meeting at the Oval Blanche office in Washington, DC, United States, Wednesday, May 2125. (Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“According to data compiled by Agency France-Press, there have been 447 murders on farms and small operations between October 2023 and September 2024. In recent years, the extremist political party The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has encouraged attacks on Afrikaner farmers, relying on the use of the song” Kill the Boer (farmer) ” violence, “added the report.

The State Department then criticized wider repression tactics against Afrikaners, citing the 2024 expropriation bill, in particular. The legislation allows the government to seize land without compensation in certain circumstances.

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“This law could allow the government to seize the agricultural property of the ethnic minorities of ethnic minorities without compensation, following countless government policies conceived to dismantle equal opportunities in employment, education and business, and land actions of extreme rhetoric and government fueling disproportionate violence against racially unpleasant racial landowners.”

The South Africans protest in favor of Trump and against their government following a controversial meeting of the White House with the South African president. (Getty Images)

President Donald Trump Confronted the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House during a state visit in May.

Trump said South African White African farmers were slaughtered and forced to leave their land. The Afrikaners are descendants of New Denish settlers who have arrived for the first time South Africa in 1652.

“Now it’s very bad. These are burial sites here.” They are all white farmers. The family of white farmers. And these cars are not, lead, they are arrested there to pay tribute to the member of their family who was killed. And it’s a terrible spectacle. I have never seen anything like it. On both sides of the road, you have crosses. These people are all killed. “

President Donald Trump is animated at a meeting with the president of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa in the oval office of the White House. (Getty Images)

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South Africa denies the allegations of genocide and harassment, just like its president.

“I’m not going to repeat what I said,” said Ramaphosa during the May visit. “I would say that if there was a genocide of Afrikaner farmers, I can bet you that these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. He would not be with me.”