JOHANNESBURG — The South African government on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. State Department’s latest assessment of the country’s human rights conditions as “inaccurate and deeply flawed.”

The Trump administration this week released human rights reports for countries worldwide, including South Africa, asserting that the state of human rights in South Africa had “significantly worsened” in 2024. It cited the unjust treatment of white Afrikaners after the signing of significant land reforms, which the Trump administration has claimed discriminate against the group that ruled the nation during the apartheid era.

South Africa’s Foreign Ministry expressed “profound disappointment” with the report, saying its reliance on out of context information and discredited accounts was highly concerning

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