By The Daily Caller (World News) | Created at 2026-06-19 19:26:00 | Updated at 2026-06-19 21:10:10
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Afrikaner leaders whose concerns were reflected in a list of U.S. conditions tied to continued AIDS relief funding told the Daily Caller that South Africa’s government is unlikely to make the changes necessary to restore the aid.
Instead, they said, government officials will continue targeting the U.S. and domestic minority groups rather than addressing issues such as property rights, rural crime and race-based policies that Washington cited in its demands, at the expense of those suffering from AIDS. (RELATED: DUKE: Trump Sends Simple Message To South Africa)
The Daily Caller’s White House correspondent, Reagan Reese, exclusively reported Thursday that the Trump administration had notified the South African government that it would end the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) because the country had failed to meet conditions set by the administration.
The conditions included:
- Providing alternatives and exemptions to race-based mandates, such as the diversity-based Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) laws, for U.S. companies.
- Condemning race-based incitement to violence by senior government officials, including the chanting of the “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” song by South African officials.
- Preventing measures allowing for the expropriation of land with no compensation and without due process under the Expropriation Act of 2024.
- Designating crimes on farms and smallholdings as a “priority crime,” with increased resources dedicated to these rural areas.
- Refraining from interfering with the U.S. refugee program for South African minorities within the confines of South African law.
SCOOP: The U.S. has told South Africa it is ending the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief after the country failed to protect white South Africans from violence and displacement, @DailyCaller has learned.
It says the South African government failed to do the…
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) June 18, 2026
Joost Strydom, the CEO of the Orania Movement, which aims to construct an independently governed town built by and for the Afrikaner community, told the Caller that the funding pullout follows the “systematic chipping away of basic rights and negotiated settlements.”
Strydom said that the government will act shocked that the U.S. would cut its funding and that the media will share countless testimonies of AIDS survivors affected by the change, but he said the removal of Afrikaners’ rights by the South African regime will continue to be ignored.
Strydom pointed not only to points specifically mentioned within the U.S. demands, including the removal of Afrikaner farmland through the Expropriation Act, but also to the BELA Act, which limits Boer control over their own schools; the Firearms Control Amendment Bill, proposed legislation to remove the right to self-defense; attacks on Section 25 through efforts to remove rights to private property; and attacks on Section 235 of the Constitution, which allows for the self-determination of South African minorities, including Afrikaners in Orania.
“Education, property rights and self-determination were crucial parts of the negotiated settlements of the 1990s in South Africa,” Strydom said. “Now, systematically, these are removed. And the ANC (African National Congress) will act as if they are surprised that American tax-dollar support is removed from their curatorship?” (RELATED: Inside Orania — South Africa’s Whites-Only Town)
🧵 3/6 Because of their emphasis on self-reliance, Orania invests heavily in education—focusing on practical skills like masonry, plumbing, electrical work, and agriculture.
Classes are taught in Afrikaans, offering an alternative to South Africa’s BEE policies, which residents… pic.twitter.com/hNkE5Un9oz
— Derek VanBuskirk (@DerekVBK) June 3, 2025
Ernst van Zyl, head of public relations at AfriForum, a nonprofit aimed at addressing a wide variety of issues within South Africa, including Afrikaner safety from farm attacks, told the Caller that the ANC-led government’s refusal to address the “reasonable and realistic list of criteria” attached to the continued funding continues to hurt all the people of South Africa.
He warned that instead of fixing its mistakes, the government will instead blame its “extremist behaviour and rhetoric” on scapegoats such as local minority groups and organizations seeking to address the country’s problems from outside the political system.
“The issues the Trump administration has identified in South Africa are real and well documented,” van Zyl emphasized, citing the “Kill the Boer” chant and attacks on private property laws. “It is the ANC’s choice to double down on their racialist agenda and farm murder denialism, despite how this hurts the average South African; that is the extremist position in this matter.”
A former South African schoolteacher, Anet Coetzee, woke up to a double-barrel shotgun shoved through her window. She only had time to cry out to God before the blast tore through her face and arm, knocking her to the floor.
She lost her right eye and most of her teeth that… pic.twitter.com/3RC3AHMRgN
— Derek VanBuskirk (@DerekVBK) June 5, 2025
Ernst Roets, executive director of think tank and advocacy group Lex Libertas, said that despite the cuts being tragic, they were completely avoidable.
“The government was given repeated opportunities to address reasonable concerns, but chose ideological defiance instead. The American response is therefore reasonable, even though its consequences may be deeply tragic,” Roets said, according to a Lex Libertas statement sent to the Caller. “The government still has an opportunity to prevent further damage, but this will require it to abandon ideological posturing and address the substantive concerns that have been placed before it.”
Bennie van Zyl, the general manager of the South Africa-based TLU SA, which stands for the safety and sustainability of commercial farmers, told the Caller that it is a pity that the South African government believes it is owed financial aid without needing to play by the rules.
Bennie said that BBBEE and South Africa’s soaring crime rates are preventing U.S. businesses from operating in the country and are directly contributing to the choking of South African business and the failure of its infrastructure.
“There is nothing that you can mention that is for the better now. Everything is worse,” Bennie said of the current government. “I don’t know what this ANC government does not understand. They do all the wrong things, but they want positive outcomes.” (RELATED: A Warning: What South Africa Can Teach Americans About Preserving Their Freedom)
Bennie, for his part, thanked the Trump administration for putting “positive pressure on South Africa to allow economic principles to do their job.”
