US President Donald Trump said he would reduce all future funding for South Africa due to allegations that they are the confiscation of the Earth and “the treatment of some groups of people very badly.”
Land ownership has always been a controversial issue in South Africa with most private agricultural lands owned by white people, 30 years after the end of the apartheid system in the apartheid.
There were continuous calls to the government to address land reform and deal with the previous injustice of the racist semester.
South African President Trump responded through the Post to X: “South Africa is a constitutional democracy deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality. The South African government did not confiscate any land“
He added that the only financing that South Africa received from the United States was through the Pepfar, which represented “17 % of the HIV/AIDS program in South Africa.”
The United States allocated about 440 million dollars (358 million pounds) with the help of South Africa in 2023, according to US government data.
Elon Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, is now Trump’s advisor, in the discussion, saying that the new law had been discriminated against the eggs.
“Why do you have public racist royal laws?” Mr. Musk told Ramvosa in a post on X.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “I will cut all the future funding for South Africa until a full investigation has been completed in this position!”
“The South Africa leadership is doing some terrible things and terrible things,” he said at a press conference with reporters.
“So this is under investigation at the present time. We will put a decision, and until the time we know what South Africa is doing – they take away the land and land sources, and they do things that may be worse than that.”
The new law allows yellow without compensation only in the circumstances in which it is “fair and fair and in the public interest” to do so.
This includes whether the property is not used and there is no intention to develop or earn money from it or when it is a threat to people.
Until now, the land allowed the government only to buy lands from its current owners under the principle of the “borrowed seller and the buyer ready”, which some feel delayed the land reform process.
However, some critics have expressed their concerns that the law may have severe consequences as in Zimbabwe, as the seizures broke the land of the economy and feared investors.
Afriforum, a group that focuses on protecting the rights and interests of the white residents of African Lydard, wants the government to change the new law “to ensure the protection of property rights.”
However, he said that he does not agree with Trump’s threat to reduce funding, indicating that any punitive measures are directed to the “African National Congress Party leaders”, not South Africa.
The African National Congress, led by Ramavusa, is currently governing South Africa, through an alliance agreement with several other smaller parties.
Trump also went out in South Africa during his first term as an American president, as he asked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study “the country’s agricultural seizures, sources in the country and widespread murder for farmers.”
At that time, South Africa accused Trump of seeking to plant partition, where a spokesman said he was “misleading.”
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2025-02-03 11:18:00