Guest post by Stefano Forte, President of New York Young Republicans Club
U.S. foreign policy has too often prioritized globalist interests over principled ones. A second Trump administration offers the chance to realign America’s moral compass on the global landscape, and there’s no better place to start than with South Africa’s beleaguered Afrikaner minority.
For decades, the Afrikaners – descendants of Dutch settlers – have faced escalating violence, discrimination, and land expropriation threats under successive and genocidal ANC governments. Despite their contributions to South Africa’s infrastructure, agriculture, and economy, they are increasingly treated as political scapegoats. Farm attacks continue at alarming rates. Land expropriation without compensation remains a policy debate. Yet the world stays silent.
Only President Trump famously stood up for the Afrikaners on the world stage when he confronted President Cyril Ramaphopsa – and invariably shocked the world when he instructed White House staff to “Turn the lights down” in order to display a video montage of South African government officials calling for the death of Afrikaners. President Ramaphopsa’s reaction was the subject of weeks of memes, and shortly following their meeting President Trump granted refugee status to the Afrikaners in an Executive Order.
More recently, the Trump administration put together an assessment of human rights abuses throughout the world, concluding that human rights in South Africa have significantly worsened in 2024. We’ve seen a substantial number of Afrikaners leave as a result – to which President Ramaphosa called them cowards.
But many of the Afrikaners are not looking to leave. They were born on South African land and intend to be buried on that same South African land. A Trump-appointed Special Envoy for the Protection of Afrikaner Rights would send a clear message: the United States will not ignore genocide or state-sponsored ethnic targeting. This isn’t just about protecting the Afrikaners – rather, it’s about reaffirming our nation’s commitment to the fundamental rights for an innocent minority, and participating in the defense of a western people whose values mirror our own American ones.
Trump has never been afraid to speak truth to globalist hypocrisy. While the Biden administration lectured about “equity” abroad, it ignored the brutal consequences of race-based policies in South Africa. A Special Envoy would give persecuted communities a voice, expose corruption, and challenge the end of history global order that has turned a blind eye in the name of “racial justice.”
If the U.S. could appoint envoys for climate change and LGBTQ rights, surely we can also appoint one for a Christian farming minority at risk of cultural extinction. As it stands, their time is running thin as South African government officials openly chant “Kill the Boer”. Many Afrikaner communities – such as the autonomous town of Orania – are self-sufficient without reliance on the government that rejects them, but they are so small that a special envoy from the US is necessary to ensure their continued survival.
I had the personal honor of hosting a delegation from Orania as President of the New York Young Republican Club. I speak from firsthand experience when I say that if there is any group the United States should be allying itself with in South Africa, it is this community. The very values that we regard as the epitome of the American Dream – self-reliance, hard work, and undying determination – have made the Afrikaners targets in their homeland.
A Special Envoy for the Protection of Afrikaner Rights would show the world that the Trump Administration is realigning the global order to favor western values, and that the woke political elite who would rather turn a blind eye to this politically inconvenient situation will not prevail.
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