White South African refugee program

The South African refugee program, officially known as Mission South Africa, is a United States initiative launched in February 2025 by President Donald Trump to grant asylum to white South Africans, and other minorities in South Africa, primarily Afrikaners, under claims of systemic violence and racial discrimination linked to South Africa's post-apartheid land reform policies. The Trump administration justified the program by alleging that White South African farmers were victims of what it described as a "genocide" and state-backed persecution. Claims of white genocide in South Africa have been entirely discredited.

The initiative was met with strong opposition from the South African government. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa rejected the premise of the program, arguing that the white minority was not facing persecution that would meet the threshold for refugee status under international law.

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