# Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/trumps-state-department-is-giving-1-million-to-controversial-group-to-study-crimes-against-white-south-africans/
- Published: 2026-11-05T11:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T11:36:23+00:00
- Original publisher: ProPublica (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.propublica.org/article/afriforum-grant-trump-white-south-africans
- Topics: Africa, Politics, Research, Science, World

## Key points

- State Department plans an almost $1 million AfriForum award.
- Independent inquiries found no pattern of targeted violence against Afrikaners.
- The grant follows major changes to US aid and refugee policy.

## Summary

The Trump administration’s State Department is preparing to give almost $1 million in human rights funding to AfriForum, a South African group that advocates for Afrikaners. The award marks a shift in a bureau whose programmes have been cut and whose funding has been redirected, and it backs work on claims of persecution that independent findings do not substantiate as a pattern.

AfriForum says the money would help document hateful rhetoric and violence against Afrikaners and other minorities. South Africa has high levels of violence, and some Afrikaners have been murdered, but researchers and official inquiries say their killings are a small share of murders and show no pattern of targeted violence. Trump has described white farmers as facing genocide, cut aid to South Africa and opened refugee access to white South Africans; officials say they may admit up to 17,500 Afrikaner refugees in 2027.

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