Marco Rubio says US visa limits target some South Africans over "uncompensated land seizures"
“foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa”
Reported September 16, 2026 by businessday.co.za. Checked word for word against that report.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States is adding a visa limitation aimed at certain South African citizens who are judged to have helped create or support laws or policies that allow land expropriation without compensation, discrimination based on race, or prompting immediate violent acts against minority groups. He said Pretoria has not addressed earlier U.S. concerns. The South African embassy in Washington did not immediately respond. Officials in Johannesburg maintain there is no evidence of discrimination against white residents and warn that such claims threaten the country’s post‑apartheid unity; President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the global community to dispel false reports of white persecution. Rubio did not identify any individuals.
- businessday.co.za ↗︎16 SEP 2026