President Trump has imposed sanctions on South Africa in retaliation for a new South African law that allows the expropriation of land without compensation that is aimed at White farmers. The order, titled “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” takes South Africa’s institutionalized racism, combines it with its pro-terrorist sympathies, and uses them as a rationale to do something that should have been done long ago:
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…
