International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola told US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell to “get out of the kitchen” in a Sunday Times interview published on 4 October 2026, days after DIRCO called the ambassador in for what a DIRCO official counted as the third time in 9 months. Bozell called it a personal insult and said…
At the post-Cabinet briefing on 29 September 2026, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told South Africans who are unhappy with the country to leave in peace, and warned them not to destabilise it. A day earlier, President Ramaphosa’s newsletter had called people who travel abroad to raise concerns unpatriotic. Neither of them named a…
In his weekly newsletter of 28 September 2026, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned against people who travel to foreign capitals to spread falsehoods and scare off investors, but he named no one. The groups the government has been blaming, AfriForum, Solidarity and Lex Libertas, do not use the word he put on them. A day later,…
Solidarity’s Jaco Kleynhans told News24 he expects the US to announce whether South Africa stays in AGOA by the first week of November, and that more steps could follow within weeks. He denied that Solidarity lobbied for punishment, said Minister Ronald Lamola has never met the organisation, and said President Cyril Ramaphosa never gave his…
International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola spent the week of 17 to 23 September 2026 in Washington and New York saying South Africa wants a better relationship with the United States. In that same week he told SABC that American help against crime was welcome, while the US ambassador said an American offer to help pay…
US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell gave 2 interviews on 21 September 2026, 1 to SABC News and 1 to Business Day, 6 days after Washington announced visa restrictions aimed at South Africa. In both, he said Ramaphosa’s reply to Trump refused every 1 of the 3 asks still open, on the Kill the Boer chant,…
Minister Ronald Lamola told South Africans to prepare for the worst on 20 September 2026, saying the country is being forced to surrender its sovereignty to the United States. A check of his claims in Washington and New York against South Africa’s own laws, the American policy behind this dispute, and the ANC’s own history…
The United States announced a new visa restriction policy on 15 September 2026 that names South Africa in the heading. It is not a ban on South Africans and not one person has been named under it. What it does cover is anyone who helped make, or helps run, a law or policy that allows…
The United States government awarded a South African company, Amerikaners Group (Pty) Ltd, a contract worth up to R18 082 073 to refer Afrikaner applicants into the American refugee programme. Before the award could be made, American officials had to write and sign a formal justification explaining why no other organisation could do the work….
The United States is weighing a $1 million grant to research crime against Afrikaners, first reported by Newsday and traced back to a wider ProPublica investigation. The money is tied to Lex Libertas, founded by former AfriForum Deputy CEO Ernst Roets, and sits alongside a separate US decision to end PEPFAR funding to South Africa….
