The Trump administration has suspended all HIV/AIDS funding to South Africa, citing unsubstantiated claims that the country’s white Afrikaner minority is being persecuted. The decision, confirmed by internal State Department documents obtained by this bureau, cuts off nearly $400 million in annual assistance through PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Sources inside the department say the move was personally ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who cited a recent executive order targeting alleged anti-white discrimination in South Africa.
But here’s the kicker: no evidence of systematic persecution has been presented. The claims originate from a fringe lobby group with ties to the Trump orbit. Meanwhile, South Africa accounts for nearly a fifth of the world’s HIV cases.
Clinics are already reporting supply shortages. The World Health Organisation called the funding freeze a ‘catastrophe in the making.’ This isn’t about protecting a minority.
It’s about punishing a government that dared to take Israel to the International Court of Justice. Follow the money. Follow the bodies.
They always lead back to power.
