Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa

Executive Order 14204 of February 7, 2025

Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of
South Africa

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. In shocking disregard of its
citizens' rights, the Republic of South Africa (South
Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024
(Act), to enable the government of South Africa to
seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property
without compensation. This Act follows countless
government policies designed to dismantle equal
opportunity in employment, education, and business, and
hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling
disproportionate violence against racially disfavored
landowners.

In addition, South Africa has taken aggressive
positions towards the United States and its allies,
including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in
the International Court of Justice, and reinvigorating
its relations with Iran to develop commercial,
military, and nuclear arrangements.

The United States cannot support the government of
South Africa's commission of rights violations in its
country or its `undermining United States foreign
policy, which poses national security threats to our
Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our
interests.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States
that, as long as South Africa continues these unjust
and immoral practices that harm our Nation:

    (a) the United States shall not provide aid or
assistance to South Africa; and
    (b) the United States shall promote the
resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-
sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially
discriminatory property confiscation.

Sec. 3. Assistance. (a) All executive departments and
agencies (agencies), including the United States Agency
for International Development, shall, to the maximum
extent allowed by law, halt foreign aid or assistance
delivered or provided to South Africa, and shall
promptly exercise all available authorities and
discretion to halt such aid or assistance.

    (b) The head of each agency may permit the
provision of any such foreign aid or assistance that,
in the discretion of the relevant agency head, is
necessary or appropriate.

Sec. 4. Refugee Resettlement and Other Humanitarian
Considerations. The Secretary of State and the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate
steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian
relief, including admission and resettlement through
the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for
Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust
racial discrimination. Such plan shall be submitted to
the President through the Assistant to the President
and Homeland Security Advisor.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    February 7, 2025.