Donald Trump to interrupt the funds for South Africa due to the policy of land seizure
US President Donald Trump said he would reduce all future financing in South Africa on charges that he had taken away the country and “treated certain people’s classes very poorly.”
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphos has signed a law of a law that, under certain circumstances, allows an attack on the land for no compensation.
The ownership of the land has long been a disputed issue in South Africa, and most agricultural areas are still owned by whites, 30 years after the end of the racist Apartheid system.
The continuation of the call for the Government is to address the reform of the land and deals with the past injustices of racial segregation.
Trump wrote on Sunday on the Social Social Social Platform Platform: “I will cut off all future financing in South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation is completed!”
Later, it is in Brifing with journalists, that “South Africa’s leadership is doing some terrible things, terrible things.”
“So this is currently under investigation. We will decide, and until we discover what South Africa is doing – they take away the country and take away the country, and actually do things that may be far worse than that.”
Minister of International Relations in South Africa, Ronald Lamola, said in response to X that he hoped that Trump’s advisers would use “this investigating period to deepen their understanding of South Africa’s policy as constitutional democracy.”
“Such insights will provide a respected and informed approach to our democratic obligations,” he added.
The United States awarded about $ 440 million (£ 358 million) to South Africa in 2023, according to the US government.
The South African government says that the new law does not allow arbitrarily entangled land because it must first try to reach an agreement with the owner.
The spokesman for the President, Vincent Magwenya, said last month that the state “cannot arbitrarily and assets of no assets or for purposes except … in public interest.”
He says that the current system of a “willing seller, a willing customer” allowed white farmers to delay the land reform process.
However, some critics expressed the fear that the law could have catastrophic consequences as in Zimbabwe, where land seizures destroyed economics and scared investors.
