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Citing land expropriation concerns, Trump stopped US help to South Africa and accused his government of racial discrimination against Afrikaner farmers.
President Trump said that the agrarian reforms of South Africa unfairly point to white farmers, freezing the aid and asking for Afrikaner resettlement, which caused diplomatic tensions. (Image: Photo Ap)
President Donald Trump froze American aid on South Africa on Friday, citing a law in the country that alleges allows the land to be seized of white farmers, despite Johannesburg’s denials.
The law “would allow the Government of South Africa to seize the agricultural property of Afrikaners ethnic minorities without compensation,” Trump said in an executive order, which also observed foreign policy confrontations between the two countries of the Middle East.
Earth’s property is a controversial issue in South Africa, with most cultivation lands that are still owned by whites three decades after the end of apartheid and the government under pressure to implement reforms.
Trump added that the United States “would promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees that escape discrimination based on the breed sponsored by the Government.”
The president of the United States recently said that South Africa was confiscating land through the expropriation law signed last month, a position that the South African government has described as wrong information.
Trump’s ally, Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, accused the government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of having “openly racist property laws.”
According to reports, attempts to license the Musk Starlink Satellite Internet service in South Africa have been delayed by a policy that requires the main companies to provide a 30 percent assets to historically disadvantaged groups.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, also said that he would jump the next G20 conversations in South Africa, accusing the host government of having a “anti -American” agenda.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – AFP union news agency)
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